Re: [tor-talk] Funding Tor Development trough Referral/Affiliate Marketing

2016-01-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 01/10/2016 03:08 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists wrote: >> I'm wondering if that couldn't be a very interesting model also for >> TorBrowser, whereby the TorBrowser would automatically inject a referral >> ID (in the HTTP header or UR

Re: [tor-talk] What is "cookie protections"?

2016-01-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/8/2016 3:17 PM, Yury Bulka wrote: I've disabled the "Don't record browsing history or website data" check box in the Privacy and Security Settings dialog. There's only one potential danger I see here - cookies. In Windows TBB, there's a selection "Use custom settings for history." The "Reme

Re: [tor-talk] Help me secure my setup

2016-01-10 Thread Aeris
> So you recommend manually specifying an entry guard, instead of letting > Tor choose? Why? Not at all. Let your network gateway (or each PC) forward all outgoing traffic (or only traffic to Tor node, with iptables + ipset) through your VPN. And use the normal way a normal Tor client per PC, co

Re: [tor-talk] Help me secure my setup

2016-01-10 Thread Oskar Wendel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s7r : > Periodic consensus downloads, as well as keeping always some fresh > circuits on the list in order to attach streams to when requested via > the SocksPort. In other words, not much traffic but not 0 traffic as well. And what about a client th

[tor-talk] Fwd: [Cryptography] A possible alternative to TOR and PrivaTegrity without backdoors

2016-01-10 Thread grarpamp
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bill Cox Date: Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 9:38 AM Subject: [Cryptography] A possible alternative to TOR and PrivaTegrity without backdoors To: "cryptogra...@metzdowd.com" This is an old idea, but perhaps now there might be more reason to consider it. I c

Re: [tor-talk] Help me secure my setup

2016-01-10 Thread Aeris
Why do you absolutely want to route all your traffic through your VPN ? You want to hide to your ISP the fact you use Tor ? From my point of view, « secure » (no security possible without clean specification of your threat model) network will be gateway of your network with strong firewall allow

Re: [tor-talk] Help me secure my setup

2016-01-10 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, Periodic consensus downloads, as well as keeping always some fresh circuits on the list in order to attach streams to when requested via the SocksPort. In other words, not much traffic but not 0 traffic as well. Related to your other questio

Re: [tor-talk] Help me secure my setup

2016-01-10 Thread Oskar Wendel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oskar Wendel : > 1. Maybe I should run a private (unpublished) bridge on the server and a > tor client on my tor PC, that would be able to connect only to the bridge > (through a VPN)? This way, all unencrypted traffic would never exit a tor > PC.

Re: [tor-talk] Funding Tor Development trough Referral/Affiliate Marketing

2016-01-10 Thread Andreas Krey
On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 16:21:37 +, Kolja Weber wrote: > The amount of people buy stuff online via torbrowser should be quite low > (besides at some some "silkroads") , any serious online shop like amazon > will block Tor or VPN, otherwise the fraud order rate is quite high. None of my usual suspe

[tor-talk] Help me secure my setup

2016-01-10 Thread Oskar Wendel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My current setup is fairly simple. Let me introduce some consistent naming first. - - server - my server (VPS) in the datacentre - - router - a router in my home, it has a private VPN connection to the server - - tor PC - a PC on which I browse tor

Re: [tor-talk] Funding Tor Development trough Referral/Affiliate Marketing

2016-01-10 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 01/10/2016 03:08 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists wrote: > I'm wondering if that couldn't be a very interesting model also for > TorBrowser, whereby the TorBrowser would automatically inject a referral > ID (in the HTTP header or URL parameters) [...] > That kind of model could be implemente

Re: [tor-talk] Funding Tor Development trough Referral/Affiliate Marketing

2016-01-10 Thread Scfith Rise up
I didn't realize The Tor Project needed to investigate other options to raise more money. They have a decently paid staff, and plenty of beneficiaries. At least according to their 2013 tax filings. So, while your idea is interesting, this is a solution seeking a problem with the wrong entity.

Re: [tor-talk] Funding Tor Development trough Referral/Affiliate Marketing

2016-01-10 Thread Kolja Weber
The amount of people buy stuff online via torbrowser should be quite low (besides at some some "silkroads") , any serious online shop like amazon will block Tor or VPN, otherwise the fraud order rate is quite high. At least the CC processor / paypal / whatever will block Tor. > Dear all, > > i've

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: Orbot v15.1.0 Alpha 1

2016-01-10 Thread Dash Four
I am having all kind of problems with this, but before I go into the details, a bit of background. Currently, I am running (quite happily) the "latest" Orbot, which uses tor 2.6(.10?) with no issues to report. My android device uses droidwall with heavily modified firewall script, which restri

[tor-talk] Funding Tor Development trough Referral/Affiliate Marketing

2016-01-10 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
Dear all, i've been told of some VPN services that are funding themselves by "spoofing" the referral ID in their users traffic, for hundreds of different websites for which they made an agreement for Referral / Affiliate Marketing, when they earn a commission. I'm wondering if that couldn't be a