Re: [tor-talk] Vodafone DE throttles connections to the Tor network

2015-07-27 Thread oshwm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 this list may not want a full on discussion of politics in Britain but just to say that at the last election in Britain it boiled down to a choice between Labour that introduced much if the basis for current spy laws or Conservatives that wish to

Re: [tor-talk] Vodafone DE throttles connections to the Tor network

2015-07-27 Thread Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner
Hi Dan, yesterday I experienced the same issue with slow downloads of the descriptors but with Telekom as ISP. After the descriptor download everything was fine. Today everything is working fine. Do you still have a probleme? If not I think there was just a temporary network problem. > > I wouldn

Re: [tor-talk] tor not running

2015-07-27 Thread Evelyn Sucro
I feel bad replying to this whole list so could someone email me personally for a little advice on how to start running the Onion VPN because I'm not super computer savvy and I need some help. On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Speak Freely wrote: > Hello again, > > 1) Okay well the first thing to

[tor-talk] Vodafone DE throttles connections to the Tor network

2015-07-27 Thread Dan Snow
Hi, The ISP Vodafone Germany ('provided by GCHQ') is slowing down network speed extremely when trying to connect to the Tor network. Although advertising that there exists no DSL throttle [www.vodafone.de/dsl/dsl-drosselung.html] it is becoming more and more difficult to download the required d

Re: [tor-talk] tor not running

2015-07-27 Thread Speak Freely
Hello again, 1) Okay well the first thing to do would be to get an anti-virus. Now. Unless you want me to, I won't get into how exposed you are as an XP user, running under an admin account. You should do each of the following, but whichever order doesn't matter. 2) Check the download. This sit

Re: [tor-talk] tor not running

2015-07-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
- Original Message - From: Speak Freely To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] tor not running Bill, Yeah, I've never received a response from any torproject email address. You're officially part of the club!

Re: [tor-talk] tor not running

2015-07-27 Thread Speak Freely
Bill, Yeah, I've never received a response from any torproject email address. You're officially part of the club! I will re-post the first half of Soul Plane's very first remark. "To get help I think you will have to give more information" We need more information! You wrote: "It will not eve

Re: [tor-talk] tor not running

2015-07-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
Yes. I contacted the help desk. They do not respond. I did so immediately after he said too. And downloading from the link he sent, doesn't work either. - Original Message - From: Speak Freely To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 3:14 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [tor-talk] comicskingdom.com inaccessible by Tor?

2015-07-27 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 18:54:59 + (UTC) bao song wrote: > A few weeks ago, I suddenly could not access comicskingdom.com with Tor. > For several years before that, I had no problem accessing comicskingdom.com > with Tor. > It might be interesting to figure out how they are blocking Tor, since w

Re: [tor-talk] tor not running

2015-07-27 Thread Speak Freely
Did you follow anything Soul Plane said? Matt Speak Freely -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] comicskingdom.com inaccessible by Tor?

2015-07-27 Thread Speak Freely
They are most likely using one of 3 options to block Tor. 1) They use Tor-provided lists of Tor exit relays 2) They use publicly available block lists 3) They rolled their own block list generator The point is, this information is publicly available. So, the question isn't how they did it, but w

[tor-talk] (no subject)

2015-07-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] tor not running

2015-07-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
www.torproject.org - Original Message - From: aka To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] tor not running Tor doesn't need .NET framework. Where did you download your Tor package? It appears you installed malware/adwa

Re: [tor-talk] tor not running

2015-07-27 Thread aka
Tor doesn't need .NET framework. Where did you download your Tor package? It appears you installed malware/adware pretending to be Tor. Bill Cunningham wrote: > Hello, > I posted a little while back about my XP x64 not opening Tor. I wrote to > tor's help desk too and received no answer. I in

[tor-talk] tor not running

2015-07-27 Thread Bill Cunningham
Hello, I posted a little while back about my XP x64 not opening Tor. I wrote to tor's help desk too and received no answer. I installed .NET version 4.0 and tor still wouldn't open. I have googled and can't find anything. Would anyone maybe have an idea as to what's up? Thanks, Bill -- to

[tor-talk] comicskingdom.com inaccessible by Tor?

2015-07-27 Thread bao song
A few weeks ago, I suddenly could not access comicskingdom.com with Tor. For several years before that, I had no problem accessing comicskingdom.com with Tor. It might be interesting to figure out how they are blocking Tor, since we want people to be able to use Tor to access sites that are other

[tor-talk] Tor 0.2.7.2-alpha is released

2015-07-27 Thread Nick Mathewson
This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted offline identity keys in