Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-16 Thread Andreas Krey
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:41:13 +, Joe Btfsplk wrote: ... > If Comcast or any ISP / mobile provider don't monitor their customers' > activities, how are they able to regularly SELL such data to LEAs? What they 'sell' (and I'm rather confident they'd rather not do this particular 'business') is g

[tor-talk] DB fix

2014-09-16 Thread eliaz
I've been testing out various tor browser & bridge configurations and have been hampered by the bridge DB being down the last bunch of days. I see it's up again: Thanks, whoever did that work! - eliaz -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings

[tor-talk] torcloud log error to be of concern?

2014-09-16 Thread stn
hi, in an effort to document the torcloud process again i started another torlcoud node. this time i got an error. i don't know if it's of concern or not though i guess torcloud log viewing doesn't differ from a home node. getting ssh to work for the uninitiated is a terrible chore using amazon'

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on home computer

2014-09-16 Thread I
Your point is valid. I didn't realise that it was established that the replies were entirely pointless. Aren't there any real copyright threats? Robert > On 09/16/2014 06:20 PM, I wrote: >> The RISK OF COPYRIGHT THREATS is specifically greatest >> in USA. Other nations should be assessed indi

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on home computer

2014-09-16 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 09/16/2014 06:20 PM, I wrote: > The RISK OF COPYRIGHT THREATS is specifically greatest > in USA. Other nations should be assessed individually. > Fearmongering is not productive. I call it DMCA spam. Spam sent by a botnet: They scrape IPs from torrent trackers and send out unsolicited email. Th

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on home computer

2014-09-16 Thread I
Fair enough sort of. When I encountered this list and the general references to Tor around the place there was far too much rumourmongering about exits and Tor in general scaring people away. It is reasonable to be cautious but if everyone talks in general terms of fear and mayhem it is workin

[tor-talk] sectoor issues [Was: Re: Don't use sectoor]

2014-09-16 Thread obx
I apologize for my first mail, I should have waited to calm down a bit. I've been looking into your website and figured out how to configure my relay to not get listed. I was allowing tcp/8000 since it's a common alternative http port. I'm curious why you're listing tor exits that allow to exit t

Re: [tor-talk] Don't use sectoor

2014-09-16 Thread obx
Sectoor is no ISP. They run a DNSBL. Sorry if my message has been unclear. The problem is, that the /24 of the ISP hosting my tor-exit has been banned as tor-exit, regardless that I'm the only tor-exit on that network. This is disrupting IRC and mail traffic. I assume this might have happened to q

Re: [tor-talk] Don't use sectoor

2014-09-16 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/16/2014 06:03 PM, Thomas White wrote: > Note: I have excluded sectoor.de from this message > *** You could probably have kept them Cced, as your arguments are cooling down the initial flame and shed light over potential solutions and consequenc

Re: [tor-talk] Don't use sectoor

2014-09-16 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Note: I have excluded sectoor.de from this message Public shaming of companies does work, there is a good/bad ISP list below which can always be subtlely mentioned when communicating with ISPs: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBa

[tor-talk] Don't use sectoor

2014-09-16 Thread obx
Dear tor-talk, Dear sectoor, I'm running a tor-exit at a small provider. Another customer at the same provider complained they got blacklisted by sectoor for operating a tor-exit. This customer doesn't run a tor server and didn't run a tor server in the past. Hence, they got blacklisted as tor-ex

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on home computer

2014-09-16 Thread stn
i ran into tor ban lists in the uk eg i emailed the operator. he was reasonable and polite about my query. just asked why he ran tor ban lists. he was just sick of the smtp irc and brute for ssh attacks. though it sounds like the climate is quite bad in the UK generally. [...] T

Re: [tor-talk] mildly updated statistical analysis of Tor metrics data

2014-09-16 Thread stn
nice ! is the dataset available? On 16/09/2014 5:17 AM, Virgil Griffith wrote: Just multiple regression. Nothing fancy. And yes all data is works on a standard desktop. I use Rstudio for everything. -V -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other s

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on home computer

2014-09-16 Thread stn
i wanted to run a bridge relay but learned long term consistency is key. torcloud is a good solution imo. i have to build a bsd or linux system from old hw VS running a bridge from my desktop to make a home bridge work. i had good luck running torcloud. https://cloud.torproject.org/ it costs

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-16 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 9/15/2014 10:09 PM, Juan wrote: "Comcast doesn’t monitor our customer’s browser software, web surfing or online history." WHAHAHAHHA Just how fucking stupid all those people are. Only persons that haven't read actual news reports, from reputable journalists - in the last 10+ years would bel

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on home computer

2014-09-16 Thread Thomas White
Clearly you have not been to the UK. Under US law that is known, it is perfectly fine to run a relay both middle and exit, the same cannot be said here in the UK unfortunately and I don't think this is at all fear-mongering. Having experienced more than my fair share of attacks from law enforcemen

Re: [tor-talk] more sites requiring captchas from Cloudfare (using Google API?)

2014-09-16 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 9/16/2014 12:13 AM, isis wrote: +1 However, I don't know of a competitor to Cloudflare who privides *free* (as in beer) (D)DoS-protection via reverse webproxies, not to mention all the other bells and whistles which Cloudflare offers. It'll be hard to make the argument to switch for user-pri

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on home computer

2014-09-16 Thread I
The RISK OF COPYRIGHT THREATS is specifically greatest in USA. Other nations should be assessed individually. Fearmongering is not productive. Robert > It is when you > allow people to _exit_ to the Internets the trouble starts because > people will send DMCA spam and other spam to your Interne

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on home computer

2014-09-16 Thread Öyvind Saether
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > What about bridges? There is no big public list of bridges. They would have to look very closely at you and your internet connection to find out that you are running a bridge and if they are doing that then you have bigger problems anyway. Running

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-16 Thread Tempest
Mirimir: > Also, some of the abusers have reportedly emphasized PinkMeth's supposed > invulnerability as a Tor hidden service, and also their own supposed > invulnerability as Tor users. and the abusers reasons for defending pinkmeth displays a particular interest, which leaves them incredibly vul

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on home computer

2014-09-16 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 09/16/2014 10:36 AM, s7r wrote: >> Hi, I want to support Tor and I want to run a relay on my home >> computer. Is it fine to do that because the IP address keeps >> changing every 1-2 weeks. I know how to edit the config and >> everything else. > Well running a relay from home might not be such

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on home computer

2014-09-16 Thread Daniel Roskams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What about bridges? On 16/09/14 16:36, s7r wrote: > > On 9/16/2014 7:31 AM, Daniel Roskams wrote: >> Hi, I want to support Tor and I want to run a relay on my home >> computer. Is it fine to do that because the IP address keeps >> changing every 1-

Re: [tor-talk] more sites requiring captchas from Cloudfare (using Google API?)

2014-09-16 Thread MacLemon
Hey! On 16 Sep 2014, at 07:13, isis wrote: > I have considered starting an outreach effort to speak to the maintainers of > some of these sites, with the idea that I might gather sympathy from certain > communities who use Cloudflare. There is a text field to add a comment in said CloudFlare blo

Re: [tor-talk] mildly updated statistical analysis of Tor metrics data

2014-09-16 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 16/09/14 02:51, Virgil Griffith wrote: > * I think I am largely done with this analysis. I am ready to begin > the process of massaging this to be put on Tor Blog. Hi Virgil, I'd like to repeat Roger's earlier suggestion to turn your analysis into a Tor tech report: https://research.torproje

Re: [tor-talk] I2P over Tor

2014-09-16 Thread grarpamp
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Jeff Becker wrote: > Hi, > > Newbie I2P contributor here, I've recently been playing around with the idea > of running I2P over Tor for purely experimental reasons. I am thinking that > some users could still participate in routing traffic by providing a reachable

Re: [tor-talk] mildly updated statistical analysis of Tor metrics data

2014-09-16 Thread Virgil Griffith
Just multiple regression. Nothing fancy. And yes all data is works on a standard desktop. I use Rstudio for everything. -V On Monday, September 15, 2014, stn wrote: > hi virgil > my skills are old but i might be of use. > > are you using a single dependent/outcome variable (eg multiple regre

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on home computer

2014-09-16 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/16/2014 7:31 AM, Daniel Roskams wrote: > Hi, I want to support Tor and I want to run a relay on my home > computer. Is it fine to do that because the IP address keeps > changing every 1-2 weeks. I know how to edit the config and > everything else