Re: [tor-talk] TPO/TBB clone on SourceForge, use of TPO name

2014-09-22 Thread Griffin Boyce
Nima Fatemi wrote: Seems like the one mentioned in #11515 is gone, either those letters have been actually effective or the maintainer decided to remove the project (which imo is unlikely to be the case). I say it's worth a shot to submit another complaint for these two forks. I've complain

Re: [tor-talk] TPO/TBB clone on SourceForge, use of TPO name

2014-09-22 Thread Nima Fatemi
Andrew Lewman wrote: > On 09/22/2014 05:42 PM, grarpamp wrote: > >> What's the trac ticket for these, or this sort of thing? > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11515 > > Sourceforge/Dice don't care. We even sent them snail mail to no effect. > Seems like the one mentioned in #

Re: [tor-talk] GoldBug SF projects [was: Bittorrent Bleep]

2014-09-22 Thread grarpamp
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:12 AM, Bernd Stramm wrote: > To the extent that linux versions of these projects are available, I put > them in the opensuse build system. > From there you can get RPMs, and a few DEBs, including the source versions. > OBS signs them. If I wanted to try Unix/OBS versions

Re: [tor-talk] TPO/TBB clone on SourceForge, use of TPO name

2014-09-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 09/22/2014 05:42 PM, grarpamp wrote: > What's the trac ticket for these, or this sort of thing? https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11515 Sourceforge/Dice don't care. We even sent them snail mail to no effect. -- Andrew pgp 0x6B4D6475 https://www.torproject.org/ +1-781-948-1982

[tor-talk] TPO/TBB clone on SourceForge, use of TPO name

2014-09-22 Thread grarpamp
Whether clones or worse, there's something very weird going on with these guys. http://browser4tor.sourceforge.net/ http://torbrowser.sourceforge.net/ Has anyone dissected this software? Was this issue ever resolved? Does anyone know of any other instances and URL's where a TPO project has been

Re: [tor-talk] Article: Best Alternatives to Tor

2014-09-22 Thread grarpamp
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Colin Mahns wrote: > I like how a couple of the alternatives to "Tor" in this article are > Tails and Whonix. What do they use for anonymity again? Oh yeah, Tor... > > They also list Disconnect and Tox as an alternative, and then quickly > say they aren't alternati

Re: [tor-talk] GoldBug SF projects [was: Bittorrent Bleep]

2014-09-22 Thread grarpamp
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:55 AM, grarpamp wrote: >> https://cpunks.org//pipermail/cypherpunks/2014-September/005507.html > > Reply in thread please. > >> the point was that I would not use bleep messenger from bittorrent, as >> it is not open source. > > The point in this particular thread is... t

Re: [tor-talk] Putin to isolate Russia’s internet?

2014-09-22 Thread Nick Sheppard
On 20/09/14 06:32, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 9/20/14, Артур Истомин wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:33:57PM +0100, Nick Sheppard wrote: Interesting Guardian article today: Putin considers plan to unplug Russia from the internet 'in an emergency'. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19

Re: [tor-talk] Unreachable address

2014-09-22 Thread Hartmut Haase
Hi Georg, Hard to say but the problem is that the PositiveSSL CA 2 is not in the trust store in Firefox based browsers. That's why your issue is showing up. The owner of the page is probably not using/not testing with Firefox and thus not aware of it. well, I tested with several Firefoxes on diff

Re: [tor-talk] Article: Best Alternatives to Tor

2014-09-22 Thread Aymeric Vitte
Funny article indeed... But the homework was not so good, he forgot Peersm (!!), and we learn that Peerblock is free, but the article forget to mention that the blocklists are not free :-), so Peerblock without blocklists is probably not very efficient... And when we look at the blocklists t

Re: [tor-talk] Article: Best Alternatives to Tor

2014-09-22 Thread Elrippo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This writer has absolutely no clew what she/he is writing about. Absolutely no scientific proof, just copy/paste the FAQ articles of some sites and claim TOR is compromised. Sad how disinformation again finds its way on a "professional" homepage..

Re: [tor-talk] Anonymity of RSS readers

2014-09-22 Thread Jan Reister
Il 21/09/2014 13:49, Christian Stadelmann ha scritto: > b) using Tor > This is a bad idea too since I regularly fetch some hundred RSS/Atom > files, some of them via unencrypted HTTP. This would clearly undermine > all anonymity provided by tor. Do you mean that the hundreds rss feeds are a uniqu

Re: [tor-talk] Anonymity of RSS readers

2014-09-22 Thread Nathan Freitas
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014, at 07:49 AM, Christian Stadelmann wrote: > b) using Tor > This is a bad idea too since I regularly fetch some hundred RSS/Atom > files, some of them via unencrypted HTTP. This would clearly undermine > all anonymity provided by tor. This problem gets even worse when th

Re: [tor-talk] Article: Best Alternatives to Tor

2014-09-22 Thread Colin Mahns
I like how a couple of the alternatives to "Tor" in this article are Tails and Whonix. What do they use for anonymity again? Oh yeah, Tor... They also list Disconnect and Tox as an alternative, and then quickly say they aren't alternatives. I'd say this writer was hoping for clickbait. Colin Vir

[tor-talk] Article: Best Alternatives to Tor

2014-09-22 Thread Katya Titov
Article named "Best Alternatives to Tor: 12 Programs to Use Since NSA, Hackers Compromised Tor Project": http://www.idigitaltimes.com/best-alternatives-tor-12-programs-use-nsa-hackers-compromised-tor-project-376976 Some quotes: "Tor has been compromised, the Tor Project has recently suffered fro

Re: [tor-talk] Unreachable address

2014-09-22 Thread Georg Koppen
Hartmut Haase wrote: > Hi, > when I try to open www.stayfriends.de I get the following message: > > Dieser Verbindung wird nicht vertraut > > Sie haben TorBrowser angewiesen, eine gesicherte Verbindung zu > www.stayfriends.de aufzubauen, es kann aber nicht überprüft werden, ob > die Verbindung si

Re: [tor-talk] Article: Best Alternatives to Tor

2014-09-22 Thread Virgil Griffith
Articles like these are irresponsible. But at least the journalist did sufficient homework to find a few "alternatives" I hadn't heard of. -V On Monday, September 22, 2014, Katya Titov wrote: > Article named "Best Alternatives to Tor: 12 Programs to Use Since NSA, > Hackers Compromised Tor Pro