Re: [tor-talk] Clarification of Tor's involvement with DARPA's Memex

2015-04-25 Thread benjamin barber
There is the implication that the tor network can be used for exactly that with some of the side projects that are using tor. Or that using a Tails USB stick is a little like a holy talisman against the evil NSA, when in reality its only really suitable for accessing censored content. On Sat, Apr

Re: [tor-talk] Clarification of Tor's involvement with DARPA's Memex

2015-04-25 Thread Tempest
aka: > The common user does not apply to all threat models. If you are a high > volume recreational drug salesman, you must expect 0days and snitches. if you're a drug salesman, you're a different type of criminal that has high value to multiple law enforcement agencies. personally, i don't care a

Re: [tor-talk] Clarification of Tor's involvement with DARPA's Memex

2015-04-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
The GNS/ alternate distributed DNS thing is the bit I was specifically referring to. I do share your assessment that Gnunet does not provide anything like adequate anonymity. GnuNet's GNS could be (I assume) run across TOR or I2P - this is what might be interesting to explore (for someone who want

Re: [tor-talk] Clarification of Tor's involvement with DARPA's Memex

2015-04-25 Thread goofyzrnssm
Zenaan Harkness: Something like https://gnunet.org/taxonomy/term/34 ? You can run that now. Hm... These from GNUnet's FAQ [0]: Q. Is it possible to surf the WWW anonymously with GNUnet? A. It is not possible use GNUnet for anonymous browsing at this point. We recommend that you use Tor for a

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy seems to connect to the same exit node again and again

2015-04-25 Thread Sophie Hassfurther
Oh, now I get it... TorBirdy preferences > Test proxy settings sorry > I am not sure I understand you correctly: >> The ip check hidden behind a warning dialog hinders obtaining >> useful data. > Are you referring to the warning message I got? -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproje

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy seems to connect to the same exit node again and again

2015-04-25 Thread Yuri
On 04/25/2015 11:20, l.m wrote: On second thought there is an advantage to discouraging the use of the check. If something went wrong with the socks port setting using the check would leak the intention to use tor by connecting to check.torproject.org. Not a big deal, unless the socks port isn't

Re: [tor-talk] Clarification of Tor's involvement with DARPA's Memex

2015-04-25 Thread Mirimir
On 04/25/2015 12:26 PM, l.m wrote: > Hi, > > "Lodewijk andré de la porte" wrote: >> And just trying not to be dragnetted at all times. It's important >> to sometimes use Tor, just so that when you actually do (one >> day, for whatever reason!) it doesn't seem suspicious :) > > If you're trying to

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy seems to connect to the same exit node again and again

2015-04-25 Thread Sophie Hassfurther
Hi Leeroy, > There's a strong correlation between the perceived usefulness to > end-users and their support for a FOSS project :) A simple warning is > easy enough. :) If I would like to suggest to add a warning to the "Before using TorBirdy", where would be the right place to do so? I am not sur

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy seems to connect to the same exit node again and again

2015-04-25 Thread Sophie Hassfurther
Hi guys, What you explained is a little over my head. Also my capacities are very limited at the moment. I will look into it, soon! Thanks S l.m: > Hi teor, > > You could run TorBirdy through its own instance of the tor client > software, with a separate socks port. > > This would avoid many

Re: [tor-talk] Clarification of Tor's involvement with DARPA's Memex

2015-04-25 Thread l.m
Hi, "Lodewijk andré de la porte" wrote: >And just trying not to be dragnetted at all times. It's important >to sometimes use Tor, just so that when you actually do (one >day, for whatever reason!) it doesn't seem suspicious :) If you're trying to avoid suspicion you should use Tor for *everything

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy seems to connect to the same exit node again and again

2015-04-25 Thread l.m
>The ip check hidden behind a warning dialog hinders obtaining >useful data. I'll keep that in mind. On second thought there is an advantage to discouraging the use of the check. If something went wrong with the socks port setting using the check would leak the intention to use tor by connecting

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy seems to connect to the same exit node again and again

2015-04-25 Thread l.m
Hi Sophie, >Options b) and c) would be very luxurious, but option a) really >solved my problem, and seems quite important for those who >come from a different background. There's a strong correlation between the perceived usefulness to end-users and their support for a FOSS project :) A simple

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy seems to connect to the same exit node again and again

2015-04-25 Thread l.m
Hi teor, You could run TorBirdy through its own instance of the tor client software, with a separate socks port. This would avoid many of the issues you're trying to work around in b) and c), as TorBirdy could happily send NEWNYM to its own client instance all it liked. There is a slightly inc

Re: [tor-talk] Clarification of Tor's involvement with DARPA's Memex

2015-04-25 Thread Lodewijk andré de la porte
And finding information which for some reason is blocked in KR. I've had some very normal websites block out because they trip the automatic blocking for no apparent reason! Perhaps a word that's forbidden in some language's slang appears by accident in my language's pages. And just trying not to

Re: [tor-talk] current policy on: giving entire families the badexit flag

2015-04-25 Thread grarpamp
> if a single or multiple exit relays in a > declared MyFamily do things that get them the badexit flag. Will other > relays in that family also get that flag? > > One such example is the following family where 2 out of 3 got the bad > exit flag (the ones that got the flag were probably shutdown si