Re: [tor-talk] Which PTs shall we prioritize for inclusion in Tails?

2015-01-21 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:06:01AM +0100, Philipp Winter wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:26:12PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > > Assuming an ideal world in which they involve an equal amount of work, > > among scramblesuit, meek, flashproxy and obfs4, which ones should we > > prioritize our efforts

[tor-talk] Did the CMU team out Silk Road 2 to the FBI?

2015-01-21 Thread Mirimir
OK, so this is very interesting: | The court documents refer to a source that provided "reliable | IP addresses" for Tor hidden services between January and July | of 2014, leading them back to both the servers and 78 different | people doing business on the site. | | According to a Tor blog post,

Re: [tor-talk] Yelp blocking Tor users from viewing entire site

2015-01-21 Thread Seth
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:20:24 -0800, Dave Warren wrote: I'm not sure that blocking Tor is the best approach, but it probably makes sense from a user experience perspective since Tor nodes would quickly get flagged for abuse if they weren't blocked outright. I am a bit mixed about whether red

Re: [tor-talk] Yelp blocking Tor users from viewing entire site

2015-01-21 Thread Seth
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:20:24 -0800, Dave Warren wrote: I'm not sure that blocking Tor is the best approach, but it probably makes sense from a user experience perspective since Tor nodes would quickly get flagged for abuse if they weren't blocked outright. I am a bit mixed about whether red

Re: [tor-talk] Yelp blocking Tor users from viewing entire site

2015-01-21 Thread Yuri
On 01/21/2015 05:04, Aymeric Vitte wrote: If they cannot detect a crawler using Tor, then they cannot detect any other crawler, like a crawler switching IPs as mentionned in another post, using vpns or proxies, etc So in that case it's useless to block Tor, because Tor network's size is not r

Re: [tor-talk] Craigslist now blocking all Tor IPs? Template for anyone:

2015-01-21 Thread Dave Warren
On 2015-01-20 15:21, Seth wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:15:43 -0800, Greg Norcie wrote: I (and a few other friends) have noticed Padmapper's results seem less complete than usual lately. Coincidence? I would think than an organization like Padmapper would have the technical and financial

Re: [tor-talk] Yelp blocking Tor users from viewing entire site

2015-01-21 Thread Dave Warren
On 2015-01-21 05:04, Aymeric Vitte wrote: It would be interesting to know if sites like Yelp/Craiglists are more afraid of anonymity and possible spam/trolls than crawlers. If they cannot detect a crawler using Tor, then they cannot detect any other crawler, like a crawler switching IPs as men

Re: [tor-talk] Yelp blocking Tor users from viewing entire site

2015-01-21 Thread Aymeric Vitte
It would be interesting to know if sites like Yelp/Craiglists are more afraid of anonymity and possible spam/trolls than crawlers. If they cannot detect a crawler using Tor, then they cannot detect any other crawler, like a crawler switching IPs as mentionned in another post, using vpns or pro

[tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — January 21st, 2015

2015-01-21 Thread Harmony
Tor Weekly News January 21st, 2015 Welcome to the third issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter th

Re: [tor-talk] Which PTs shall we prioritize for inclusion in Tails?

2015-01-21 Thread Philipp Winter
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:26:12PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > Assuming an ideal world in which they involve an equal amount of work, > among scramblesuit, meek, flashproxy and obfs4, which ones should we > prioritize our efforts on? You shouldn't prioritise ScrambleSuit because it's superseded by o