Re: [tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread Mirimir
On 01/24/2016 09:38 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:04:30AM +, Oskar Wendel wrote: >> Attacker could easily tap into major VPN providers traffic and try to >> correlate their traffic with hidden service traffic. And there are fewer >> VPN providers than Tor entry guar

[tor-talk] Escape NSA just to enter commercial surveillance?

2016-01-24 Thread tor_talk
Hi Tor Talkers, > Unless ofc you block javascript, but no human being > can solve the Cloudflare captchas you get without javascript, so > disabling javascript is pretty much non-existing. There is a chance to circumvent the captcha thing with Tor. In former days you simply had to add ExitNodes

[tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread Spencer
Hi, Nobody [quoted and I snipped regarding Tor over Tor]: undefined and potentially unsafe behavior ... it is not clear if this is safe ... it has never been discussed ... we don't understand. These seem to be the valuable parts. leave the route selection to Tor Is this that trust th

Re: [tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread Oskar Wendel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Flipchan : > Instead of goin vpn->tor You could go i2p->tor It's a bit offtopic, but still interesting. So you mean routing i2p through Tor? I conducted some experiments some time ago (I don't trust i2p enough to run it through the clearnet and I

Re: [tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread Oskar Wendel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Flipchan : > Well i never liked vpn , like for example in the US the police can force > the vpn provider to give out info without the vpn provider telling the > client/customer about it, so u need to put alot of trust in these vpn > providers, Tha

Re: [tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread Oskar Wendel
aka : > Why not Tor over Tor? Using a Tor exit to connect to the first hop. > Would require traffic correlating twice. It wouldn't. Traffic correlation doesn't care of the traffic content itself. It doesn't break the traffic anonymity, it just correlates your traffic with the traffic on the sit

Re: [tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread Oskar Wendel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Dingledine : > It's a tradeoff -- if somebody somehow breaks the anonymity of your Tor > circuit, it's nice to have another layer behind that. But if somebody > guesses that you're using a particular VPN, or you pick a VPN that they're > already

Re: [tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread Flipchan
Instead of goin vpn->tor You could go i2p->tor nobody skrev: (24 januari 2016 21:25:38 CET) >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA512 > > > >On 01/24/2016 03:22 PM, aka wrote: >> Oskar Wendel: >>> Today I thought about something... >>> >>> Let's assume that attacker (government) seizes t

Re: [tor-talk] Escape NSA just to enter commercial surveillance?

2016-01-24 Thread George
aka: >> George: >> Moreover, if Facebook, etc, decide to employ hidden services, it is good >> publicity against the "hidden services are for terrorists and other >> evil-doers" meme. > Absolutely this. > > Also Facebook's intention was to give citizens of oppressive regimes a > simple way to acce

Re: [tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread nobody
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/24/2016 03:22 PM, aka wrote: > Oskar Wendel: >> Today I thought about something... >> >> Let's assume that attacker (government) seizes the hidden service >> and wants to run it and deanonymize its users with traffic >> correlation. >> >> A

Re: [tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread aka
Oskar Wendel: > Today I thought about something... > > Let's assume that attacker (government) seizes the hidden service and > wants to run it and deanonymize its users with traffic correlation. > > Attacker could easily tap into major VPN providers traffic and try to > correlate their traffic

Re: [tor-talk] Kernel OOPS through Tor - report or ignore?

2016-01-24 Thread Ken Cline
> On 24 Jan 2016, at 12:08 AM, grarpamp wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Ken Cline wrote: >> I reported a Tor crash, only to find it was caused by a failing disk. > > Apps should not crash due to failed i/o, rather should retry, block, > fail, or exit, perhaps configurably. Especial

Re: [tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:04:30AM +, Oskar Wendel wrote: > Attacker could easily tap into major VPN providers traffic and try to > correlate their traffic with hidden service traffic. And there are fewer > VPN providers than Tor entry guards (and much less than home connections > around the

Re: [tor-talk] Escape NSA just to enter commercial surveillance?

2016-01-24 Thread aka
> George: > Moreover, if Facebook, etc, decide to employ hidden services, it is good > publicity against the "hidden services are for terrorists and other > evil-doers" meme. Absolutely this. Also Facebook's intention was to give citizens of oppressive regimes a simple way to access US controlled

Re: [tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread Flipchan
Well i never liked vpn , like for example in the US the police can force the vpn provider to give out info without the vpn provider telling the client/customer about it, so u need to put alot of trust in these vpn providers, i am acctually developing a better solution but its only in beta and i

Re: [tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread Oskar Wendel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Flipchan : > Do u mean a vpn to tor? Or first tor then a vpn? Tor over VPN. So we first purchase a VPN and then make Tor use it to connect to the first hop. - -- Oskar Wendel, o.wen...@wp.pl.remove.this Pubkey: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?searc

[tor-talk] A multi-layer proof of work system to solve the Tor/CloudFlare problem?

2016-01-24 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
Hello, following a discussion on Twitter on Tor and Cloudflare, i tried to rationalize a possible multi-layer approach for fixing that issue by leveraging Proof of Work. Let's first try to define a couple of points: 1) The issue of Tor, on behalf of Tor users, with cloudflare is a usability prob

Re: [tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread Flipchan
Do u mean a vpn to tor? Or first tor then a vpn? Oskar Wendel skrev: (24 januari 2016 12:04:30 CET) >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Today I thought about something... > >Let's assume that attacker (government) seizes the hidden service and >wants to run it and deanonymize its

[tor-talk] Using VPN less safe?

2016-01-24 Thread Oskar Wendel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today I thought about something... Let's assume that attacker (government) seizes the hidden service and wants to run it and deanonymize its users with traffic correlation. Attacker could easily tap into major VPN providers traffic and try to corre