Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2014-12-31 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 12/31/2014 11:53 PM, Scott Arciszewski wrote: Trigger warning: This entire reply is going to be shameless (though non-profit) self-promotion. The current state of diversity in Onion Land is disappointing. So many of the sites still online emphasize things like drugs, porn, and hacking. I thin

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2014-12-31 Thread Katya Titov
>> This could be combined with a change to HTTPS Everywhere to prefer >> HS sites over clear web sites, just as it prefers HTTPS over HTTP. >> (I think this has been mentioned before?) > > You mean like what we've been doing over on > https://github.com/chris-barr/darkweb-everywhere? :) I knew it

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2014-12-31 Thread Colin Mahns
That was my fault, must've deleted a character by mistake. https://github.com/chris-barry/darkweb-everywhere is the right link I missed the "performed in conjunction with the organisation", looks like we were saying the same thing. I'm wondering if a few from the community should take part in a

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2014-12-31 Thread Scott Arciszewski
Trigger warning: This entire reply is going to be shameless (though non-profit) self-promotion. The current state of diversity in Onion Land is disappointing. So many of the sites still online emphasize things like drugs, porn, and hacking. I think everyone would benefit from a wider swath of the

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2014-12-31 Thread Katya Titov
Thomas White: > As per Nick's post, I fully agree that hidden services do need some > work, but I imagine the vast majority of people on this list are not > skilled in the languages and areas required to do any kind of > technical reform to them. However, technical reform of them is only > one aspe

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2014-12-31 Thread Colin Mahns
> This could be combined with a change to HTTPS Everywhere to prefer HS > sites over clear web sites, just as it prefers HTTPS over HTTP. (I > think this has been mentioned before?) You mean like what we've been doing over on https://github.com/chris-barr/darkweb-everywhere? :) The above tool (gr

[tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2014-12-31 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 As per Nick's post, I fully agree that hidden services do need some work, but I imagine the vast majority of people on this list are not skilled in the languages and areas required to do any kind of technical reform to them. However, technical reform

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is now released!

2014-12-31 Thread Sebastian G.
31.12.2014, 19:27 Nick Mathewson: Happy New Year to everyone. Some stuff could have been called "Minor changes" to silence people that grep for "bugfix" and count the occurrences, although there were no bugs fixed, just changes. I'm not complaining about the use of "nonexistent port", although i

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is now released!

2014-12-31 Thread grarpamp
> o Major features (hidden services): > - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the > circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port. > Closes ticket 13667. Not sure that this relatively security through obscurity is going to do much other tha

[tor-talk] Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is now released!

2014-12-31 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! The second alpha release for the 0.2.6 series has just been tagged and uploaded. You can download the source code from the website right now. Packages should become available some time over the next several days. There's still more to come in the 0.2.6 series, but I'd like to get one mor

Re: [tor-talk] Looking to write alternative to DNS2SOCKS...

2014-12-31 Thread grarpamp
>> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/ >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dns2socks/files/SourceCode.zip/download https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/doc/tor-resolve.1.txt https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/tools/tor-resolve.c -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lis

Re: [tor-talk] Looking to write alternative to DNS2SOCKS...

2014-12-31 Thread Richard Brooks
No re-write of DNS2SOCKS required. Just needs to be re-compiled to use port 9150 instead of port 9050:-) On Thursday, 25 December 2014, Philipp Winter wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:54:53AM +, Richard Brooks wrote: > > I am a software developer who has been trying to use DNS2SOCKS but >

[tor-talk] DNS2SOCKS Bug(s)

2014-12-31 Thread Richard Brooks
Note if anyone wants to use this utility, that they will need to re-compile it so that it connects to Socket port 9150 and not 9050, as the 9050 port is no longer being used by the TOR bundle. Another issue is that the utility does not look to see if it's dependancies are running and does not comp

[tor-talk] All I Want For X-mas: TorPhone

2014-12-31 Thread spencerone
Arxaios, I think you may be confusing cannot with should not. Though, regarding TorPhone, it is established that WiFi and cellular antenna connections as a means of communication are by nature able to track people, as that seems to be how they work. However, I do not think that implies that

[tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — December 31st, 2014

2014-12-31 Thread Harmony
Tor Weekly News December 31st, 2014 Welcome to the final issue in 2014 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter th

Re: [tor-talk] Looking to write alternative to DNS2SOCKS...

2014-12-31 Thread Richard Brooks
Not a Python man myself, but could come in handy. Thank you. On Thursday, 25 December 2014, Philipp Winter wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:54:53AM +, Richard Brooks wrote: > > I am a software developer who has been trying to use DNS2SOCKS but > haven't > > had much success with it commun

Re: [tor-talk] Looking to write alternative to DNS2SOCKS...

2014-12-31 Thread Richard Brooks
Just what I'm looking for. Thanks. On Wednesday, 24 December 2014, grarpamp wrote: > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dns2socks/files/SourceCode.zip/download > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change