Re: [tor-talk] Mozilla's DNS over HTTPS does not complement Tor

2020-03-09 Thread Ben Tasker
r’s preference will be honored. On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 10:21 AM Nathaniel Suchy < nathanielsu...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Where is this documented? > > Cordially, > Nathaniel Suchy (they/them) > > Sent from ProtonMail Mobile > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 5:21 PM, Ben Taske

Re: [tor-talk] Mozilla's DNS over HTTPS does not complement Tor

2020-03-08 Thread Ben Tasker
acturer already has DoT implemented? > > > > -- > > 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 > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-

Re: [tor-talk] Is there a way to use internet in a sandbox environment? (Linux)

2019-04-03 Thread Ben Tasker
x I wouldn't expect a problem. > > > > HTH > > > > Jim > > > > -- > > tor-talk mailing list - mailto:tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-

Re: [tor-talk] tor project website change

2019-03-27 Thread Ben Tasker
Matt > -- > 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 > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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] Is there a way to use internet in a sandbox environment? (Linux)

2019-03-26 Thread Ben Tasker
uot; stuff, but it'd probably be overkill for most people. On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, 10:52 npdflr, wrote: > Thanks Ben Tasker for the information. > > > > Regarding KVM: > > If I use two KVMs one for offline use and other for online use then would > you say that th

Re: [tor-talk] Is there a way to use internet in a sandbox environment? (Linux)

2019-03-24 Thread Ben Tasker
Most browsers actually already do exactly this and run tabs inside a sandbox. If you wanted to restrict that further, you could look at chrooting or using docker. Or take it a step further and use a full blown VM (whether that's KVM or something like Virtualbox). But don't, please, follow the sug

Re: [tor-talk] You Can Now Watch YouTube Videos with Onion Hidden Services

2018-12-06 Thread Ben Tasker
rofiling that Youtube still manage to do on you, though. TL:DR - Security is weakened, Privacy is (potentially) strengthened -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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] Deploying Alt-Svc on your own website. Hello?

2018-09-22 Thread Ben Tasker
HOULD use that alternative service for all requests to the associated origin as soon as it is available"). But as with anything, plan for the dumbest user-agent you could possibly imagine. -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsub

Re: [tor-talk] Deploying Alt-Svc on your own website. Hello?

2018-09-22 Thread Ben Tasker
nue to also serve your onion over port 80 as well if you wish for direct visitors (as you still can't trivially get a cert for an onion name). HTH - hopefully I haven't missed anything Ben -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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] Digital IDs needed to end 'mob rule' online, says UK security minister Ben Wallace - Digital IDs should be brought in to end online anoymity that permits "mob rule" and lawlessness onli

2018-06-10 Thread Ben Tasker
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 16:38 mick, wrote: > > In the UK we are truly blessed. Home Office Ministers in general are > not overly intelligent. I'm not entirely sure they are that way > before they get to the HO, or the HO makes them that way after they take > office. Either way they end up spouting da

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Talk Failing Authentication

2018-02-17 Thread Ben Tasker
It's a commonly known issue with mailing lists If you've got DKIM enabled on your domain example.com, when mailman (or whatever) inserts headers the hash will no longer match. If you've got SPF enabled on example.com then the mailing list server almost certainly isn't included. When the receiving

[tor-talk] Tor sociological research - my thanks to the Tor community!

2018-02-01 Thread COLLIER Ben
erns or questions about the research, please don't hesitate to get in touch. Very best and many thanks again, Ben Twitter: @JohnnyHistone Edinburgh University PhD Student Profile: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/students/viewstudent?ref=339 SCCJR: http://www.sccjr.ac.uk/about-us/people/

Re: [tor-talk] catastrophe: ip-api.com sees me

2018-01-29 Thread Ben Tasker
t; > thank you for hiding the "expert bundle", now I understand why. > -- > 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 > -- Ben Tasker https:

Re: [tor-talk] random onion non-reachability

2018-01-05 Thread Ben Tasker
.3.2 > version and see whether things improve. > > Cool. Updating is on my list, so hopefully things will improve once I get that far. > Cheers! > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settin

Re: [tor-talk] random onion non-reachability

2018-01-05 Thread Ben Tasker
ew circuits - existing circuits continue to work just fine (which meant all my routing status checks were initially passing, natch), but if you try to create a new connection (forcing the HS to build a new circuit out to the RP) it fails. But seemingly not for all attempts (perhaps some get lucky and we&#x

Re: [tor-talk] CCC self-organised session - Tor research presentation

2017-12-29 Thread COLLIER Ben
Hello! Room 14-15 is on the top floor of the CCL building - the floor above the quadrature and the rights/freedoms bit. Look forward to seeing you there - there are a few of us presenting on our different research projects so there should be a good discussion. Very best, Ben On 29 Dec 2017

[tor-talk] CCC self-organised session - Tor research presentation

2017-12-28 Thread COLLIER Ben
u're interested, or have any questions - any feedback would be much appreciated! Very best, Ben The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: [tor-talk] Recent Tor Circuit Setup/Stability Issues?

2017-10-11 Thread Ben Tasker
k@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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 Research presentation at the CCC

2017-09-26 Thread COLLIER Ben
ondents. Very best, Ben From: tor-talk on behalf of flipchan Sent: 25 September 2017 18:58:26 To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Research presentation at the CCC Well would be cool if u opensourced all ur findings and research Tak

[tor-talk] Tor Research presentation at the CCC

2017-09-25 Thread COLLIER Ben
is interested in taking part in the research, doing an interview or generally has concerns or questions about the research then please feel free to get in touch. Thank you again to everyone I've spoken to so far, and to the community in general for your patience with my emails!

Re: [tor-talk] Using unbound to resolve .onion domains (SOLVED)

2017-09-11 Thread Ben Tasker
> Ok, now it is working ... I have added: > > local-zone: "onion." nodefault > > ..to unbound's config file, and it is works ... but I don't understadn why > this is needed ... Any idea? > > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 04:32:58PM +0100, Ben Tasker wro

Re: [tor-talk] Using unbound to resolve .onion domains

2017-09-11 Thread Ben Tasker
RITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;protonirockerxow.onion.IN A > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > onion. 10800 IN SOA localhost. nobody.invalid. > 1 3600 1200 604800 10800 > > ;; Query time: 0 msec > ;; SERVER: 127.

Re: [tor-talk] Using unbound to resolve .onion domains

2017-09-11 Thread Ben Tasker
> dig: couldn't get address for '172.22.56.4#1053': not found > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:40:40AM +0100, Ben Tasker wrote: > > Your config looks more or less exactly the same as mine (I allow tcp but > > that's the only difference I can see). > > &

Re: [tor-talk] Using unbound to resolve .onion domains

2017-09-11 Thread Ben Tasker
al DNS server it doesn't works: > > > > > > Server: 127.0.0.1 > > > Address:127.0.0.1#53 > > > > > > ** server can't find protonirockerxow.onion: NXDOMAIN > > > > > > Any idea?? What is it wrong with my config? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > -- > Greetings, > C. L. Martinez > -- > 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 > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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 bridges over ICMP or DNS

2017-09-07 Thread Ben Tasker
t; 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 > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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] Neal Krawetz's abcission proposal, and Tor's reputation

2017-08-30 Thread Ben Tasker
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Joshua Case wrote: > > > On Aug 30, 2017, at 10:36 AM, Ben Tasker wrote: > > > > > > Yup, or, it's entirely successful in it's aim and none but the most > > determined can use the markets. Which results in the alienat

Re: [tor-talk] Neal Krawetz's abcission proposal, and Tor's reputation

2017-08-30 Thread Ben Tasker
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Alec Muffett wrote: > On 30 August 2017 at 15:19, Ben Tasker wrote: > > > > > Meanwhile, the drug-markets and other "vile" things he want to block will > > carry on unabated because a subset of their users will put the e

Re: [tor-talk] Neal Krawetz's abcission proposal, and Tor's reputation

2017-08-30 Thread Ben Tasker
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Alec Muffett wrote: > On 30 August 2017 at 15:07, Ben Tasker wrote: > > > That's not quite the claim he's making though. He seems to be claiming > any > > "legitimate" (in his eyes) service shouldn't mind sacrificin

Re: [tor-talk] Neal Krawetz's abcission proposal, and Tor's reputation

2017-08-30 Thread Ben Tasker
ist - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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] Motivations for certificate issues for onion services

2017-08-10 Thread Ben Tasker
we made a tool to generate a cert chain using the > onion private key to certify the traditional TLS key, and we taught Tor > Browser how to verify those cert chains... we wouldn't need the sham > that is a DV certificate authority. But that is a different discussion. :) > > --

Re: [tor-talk] Improved sharing of .onion links on Facebook!

2017-06-16 Thread Ben Tasker
#x27;t_ be a concern when hitting Facebook in a browser. Though you might still want to do it for the reasons related to it being a public place. > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.

Re: [tor-talk] Improved sharing of .onion links on Facebook!

2017-06-15 Thread Ben Tasker
On 15 Jun 2017 19:34, "Alec Muffett" wrote: > > Doubtless haters gonna hate, but Will at Facebook just shipped > thumbnail-generation and protocol-mismatch interstitials for Onion > addresses: > > https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-over-tor/ improved-sharing-of-onion-links-on-facebook/1196217

Re: [tor-talk] allow ssl-encapsulated connections to all tor relays. Stop L7

2017-03-17 Thread Ben Tasker
hich it is). Though you could argue that if SSL is Layer 6 then Tor may also be too. > And you can use obfuscation too, with bridge node using meek, obfs or other > obfuscation protocol available on Tor. > > Yup. -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- tor-talk mailing list

Re: [tor-talk] [off-topic] linux firewall

2016-12-23 Thread Ben Tasker
; > > AFWall+ is just a frontend for old stona age iptables which seems not to be > an option for you . > > > Sorry > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailm

Re: [tor-talk] Not comfortable with the new single-hop system merged into Tor

2016-12-22 Thread Ben Tasker
> sites. > > > > If it proves to be a problem, later, then fix it, later. > > > >-a > > > > > > -- > > http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/aboutalecm > > -- > > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > > To un

Re: [tor-talk] Hacker and Tor (thank you)

2016-12-04 Thread Ben Tasker
og connections (and possibly worse). In principle, that's only an issue if you come to the attention of law enforcement. In practice, there's a good chance that the Government is going to apply it's usual skills to the IT challenge and wind up leaking ICRs all over the place. -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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] Cameras

2016-11-22 Thread Ben Tasker
which process is useing it. > > Take Care //Flipchan > -- > Sincerly flipchan - LayerProx dev > -- > 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] Research - Tor and the shaping of resistance technologies

2016-11-09 Thread COLLIER Ben
time? If not, thanks again for the advice! Ben On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 11:39 PM, Joe Btfsplk mailto:joebtfs...@gmx.com>> wrote: Hello Ben, We've heard this tor-talk@lists.torproject.org<mailto:tor-talk@lists.torproject.org> is not frequented as much as it used to be by Tor dev

[tor-talk] Research - Tor and the shaping of resistance technologies

2016-11-08 Thread COLLIER Ben
e contactable at this email address (listed in my signature) and on the IRC channels as JHistone - if you're interested (or just want to say hi or have a chat) please feel free to get in touch. Best wishes, Ben Collier Doctoral Researcher The University of Edinburgh SCCJR profile: http://www.sc

[tor-talk] Research - Tor and the shaping of resistance technologies

2016-11-08 Thread COLLIER Ben
e contactable at this email address (listed in my signature) and on the IRC channels as JHistone - if you're interested (or just want to say hi or have a chat) please feel free to get in touch. Best wishes, Ben Collier Doctoral Researcher The University of Edinburgh SCCJR profile: http://www.sc

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and forward email to Spam folder.

2016-10-30 Thread Ben Tasker
on" of the IP you're connecting from? IPv4 vs IPv6 doesn't make a difference as far as I can see. Presumably they only add it when they consider the connection is possibly a risk, otherwise you'd never add it (or always add it). So the fuller answer, I guess, is "perhaps"

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and forward email to Spam folder.

2016-10-30 Thread Ben Tasker
<https://xn--caf-vie-prive-dhbj.fr/> > -- > 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 > > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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 and forward email to Spam folder.

2016-10-30 Thread Ben Tasker
Rt9nvRj=n-1i...@mail.gmail.com> j8jr7XDS1YR0v-sUMCMEgP=g...@mail.gmail.com> i1Xexn6z0xyMBZc_NW6Ja7y=kussqyzr...@mail.gmail.com> z9adkoospdrq6izbfzbmp3qaonvgus+lu_noeo...@mail.gmail.com> > <021f01d20058$e8b20ab0$ba162010$@gmail.com> skm3wz4qpmsxyxtj6sr...@mail.gmail.com> 9lpjb8gna_jfvsa

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and forward email to Spam folder.

2016-10-24 Thread Ben Tasker
on Long wrote: > Thus google store my IP address? How can I see "X-Originating-Header"? > > > > On Monday, October 24, 2016 3:57 PM, Ben Tasker > wrote: > Gmail tends to add a header containing your client IP - > X-Originating-Header > > I've never lo

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and forward email to Spam folder.

2016-10-24 Thread Ben Tasker
r change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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] Quote Line Prefixes in Linux Text Editors

2016-10-16 Thread Ben Tasker
all seeing something similar and less MUA specific as well, again relating to the fact that drafts were being saved to the server, can't remember where I saw that but here's an OS X specific one - http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/secops-failure-gpggmail-on-osx-maver

Re: [tor-talk] Anonymous SSH Hack.

2016-09-12 Thread Ben Tasker
Below On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 09/12/2016 03:54 PM, Ben Tasker wrote: > >... > > CheckHostIP=no > > > > Don't do a DNS lookup of the host, the Tor exit node's going to do that > > anyway, and again, the queries will

Re: [tor-talk] Anonymous SSH Hack.

2016-09-12 Thread Ben Tasker
cation=no Don't present any public keys which you might have configured the SSH client to look for. They can be logged at the remote end Instead of running connect, you can also use Netcat to pass traffic to Tor ProxyCommand="nc -X 5 -x localhost:9050 %h %p" Ben On Mo

Re: [tor-talk] Am I successfully using Torsocks, SSH, and a VPS? Please advise, thanks!

2016-08-10 Thread Ben Tasker
Hi On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:58 PM, wrote: > Please see below for my response to your helpful comments. > > On 2016-08-08 11:18, Ben Tasker wrote: > >> If you're using Firefox, one thing you want to consider is DNS leakage. >> >> If yo

Re: [tor-talk] Am I successfully using Torsocks, SSH, and a VPS? Please advise, thanks!

2016-08-08 Thread Ben Tasker
gle, facebook or anyone else with an interest in tracking you across the net On 8 Aug 2016 16:29, "Cristian Consonni" wrote: > 2016-08-08 17:19 GMT+02:00 : > > There was a discussion of the same issue recently in > > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-July

Re: [tor-talk] Am I successfully using Torsocks, SSH, and a VPS? Please advise, thanks!

2016-08-08 Thread Ben Tasker
of proxy to alter > the IP. The ideal model would be: VPN –-> Torsocks (on 127.0.0.1) –-> SSH > (bound to port 3) –-> VPS –-> Proxy (e.g. HTTP(S)) –-> Internet. > > Thank you for your help. I appreciate any advice and suggestions. > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-t

Re: [tor-talk] Reminder to stay on-topic

2016-06-23 Thread Ben
> Rules or policies should be enforced equally in an unbiased way. Even > moderated forums allow certain "unpermitted" discussions while deleting > / closing others immediately. As much as I (and presumably everyone else) was getting sick of updates on the topic coming into my inbox, there's d

Re: [tor-talk] Tesco's mobile banking app refuses to run on handsets where the Tor app is also installed

2016-06-18 Thread Ben
Whoops, sorry for the double-post, Mailserver claimed sending had failed -- 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

[tor-talk] Tesco's mobile banking app refuses to run on handsets where the Tor app is also installed

2016-06-18 Thread Ben
All in the name of security apparently. Their approach to security on their site, on the other hand, is to simply slap a cert on it and not bother with HSTS, HPKP or DANE. They've not even bothered with DNSSEC, and from the comments on that article don't seem to care if your connection transits th

[tor-talk] Tesco's mobile banking app refuses to run on handsets where the Tor app is also installed

2016-06-18 Thread Ben
All in the name of security apparently. Their approach to security on their site, on the other hand, is to simply slap a cert on it and not bother with HSTS, HPKP or DANE. They've not even bothered with DNSSEC, and from the comments on that article don't seem to care if your connection transits th

Re: [tor-talk] 2 hop mode for people that only want to use Tor for censorship circumvention to conserve bandwidth and decrease latency?

2016-06-13 Thread Ben Tasker
lly? I hope they're > not on my jury of "peers" if I'm ever accused. > As well as the oft-quoted "there's no smoke without fire", or "there must be something to it, or the case wouldn't have reached court" -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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] Reddit user babalui1 claims that Roger Dingledine is next to get fired by the Tor Project

2016-06-08 Thread Ben Tasker
> 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 > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: [tor-talk] Any updates from Tor Project on ioerror?

2016-06-06 Thread Ben Tasker
> Got my fingers crossed that the more sensible and rational members of this > list are staying silent as they often do when the oddballs come to play. > > My $.02 of course since everyone else has been so free with theirs > > > > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-tal

Re: [tor-talk] 'Refresh tor browser' - and then it wasn't one anymore.

2016-05-04 Thread Ben Tasker
t; --Roger > > -- > 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 > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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] 12.7 percent of the domains I visit are intercepted by CloudFlare

2016-04-24 Thread Ben Tasker
ty - you can find sites where the developer has decided that controlling the theme and page layout is best done by setting a shedload of cookies and then reading them back with javascript. On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > On 4/23/2016 5:44 PM, Ben Tasker wrote:

Re: [tor-talk] 12.7 percent of the domains I visit are intercepted by CloudFlare

2016-04-23 Thread Ben Tasker
by abc.com. So it's use in tracking across domains is incredibly limited. Pretty useful for tracking return visits to abc.com (and it's subdomains) though Ben On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:21 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > On 4/23/2016 2:54 PM, Rob van der Hoeven wrote: > >> On Sat

Re: [tor-talk] Roger

2016-04-23 Thread Ben Tasker
r for all concerned if his vitriol was directed > elsewhere, forcebly if necessary. He is adding nothing to the > conversations. > > Paul > -- > PAUL A CRABLE > PORTLAND, OREGON, U.S.A. > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or cha

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and child pornography

2016-04-02 Thread Ben Tasker
sign up here: https://www.ghostmail.com > > -- > 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 > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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] Extend auto-IP-switching-time in TorBrowser (and depending from time of inactivity)

2016-03-25 Thread Ben Stover
keep-circuit-instruction" is currently not possible. Why not offering the user such a (torrc) option? So its up to him if he wants an extended circuit-session-time or not. Ben >I'm confused. What is the situation you are concerned about? A new >stream would go over a new circuit w

[tor-talk] Is it possible to get a Node-Chain with 3 nodes from ONE country?

2016-03-21 Thread Ben Stover
Is it possible to get a Node-Chain with 3 nodes from ONE country? Ben -- 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

[tor-talk] Extend auto-IP-switching-time in TorBrowser (and depending from time of inactivity)

2016-03-20 Thread Ben Stover
15 minutes no web page is called)? Thank you Ben -- 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

[tor-talk] How to get informed about syntax errors in "torrc"? Logfile?

2016-03-19 Thread Ben Stover
Assume I wrote some instructions into "torrc" file with wrong syntax. How do I get informed about this mistake? Is there a logilfe? Can I enable a warning prompt? Or are such invalid instructions simply silently ignored? Ben -- tor-talk mailing list

[tor-talk] Reload "torrc" without restart TorBrowser possible? Reload every 600 seconds?

2016-03-18 Thread Ben Stover
t a "reload 600" instruction into "torrc" file which tells TorBrowser to AUTOMATICALLY reload every 600 seconds? Ben -- 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] Torsocks plus ssh plus command line browser - does this idea make sense?

2016-03-14 Thread Ben Tasker
nd set it to True Depending on what you're accessing and why, you'll want to keep your "forwarded" browser seperate from your day-to-day clearnet browser. Ben On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:33 PM, wrote: > The reason, simply, is that I have never used the -D of ssh before! &g

Re: [tor-talk] Torsocks plus ssh plus command line browser - does this idea make sense?

2016-03-14 Thread Ben Tasker
-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 > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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

[tor-talk] Vidalia and Privoxy completely outdated with TorBrowser package?

2016-03-14 Thread Ben Stover
In the past I setup Tor with separate Vidalia and Privoxy tools. When I use now TorBrowser package then there is no need to install them any more. At least it is not visible any more. Are Vidalia and Privoxy completely outdated and deprecated? Ben -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk

[tor-talk] Difference between "torrc" and "torrc-defaults" file ?

2016-03-11 Thread Ben Stover
When I go in a TorBrowser installation into folder TorBrowsr\Data\Tor\ then there are two torrc files which seem to be used: "torrc" and "torrc-defaults" What is the difference? Are both used? In which sequence? Which statements have higher priority? Ben -- t

[tor-talk] Re: Why does parameter "StrictExitNodes" exist?

2016-03-10 Thread Ben Stover
Ok, thank you. But as far as I understand StrictNodes is now the new command. But the same problem applies here as well. Assume I sepcify as already said: ExitNodes {fr},{de],{ca} BUT NO "StrictNodes 1" command. Does that mean "You need not obey the ExitNodes" command?

[tor-talk] Why does parameter "StrictExitNodes" exist?

2016-03-09 Thread Ben Stover
e of the three nodes. This is confusing. Why is "ExitNodes" not sufficient? Is it only a case of probability? So with only the ExitNodes statement above it could happen that the exit node is in US anyway? This is strange. Maybe someone could help me Thank you Ben -- to

[tor-talk] Use another "torrc" with Tor-Browser in Windows?

2016-03-09 Thread Ben Stover
switch time is not comfortable. So is there another way of easily temporarily use a different "torrc" file when starting TorBrowser? I can imagine that I can pass a torrc through TorBrowser/Firefox anyway like firefox.exe -pass2tor_own_config E:\browser\Tor\myconfig\torrc123 Tha

[tor-talk] How to get the country of current exit node (+ current node chain)?

2016-03-08 Thread Ben Stover
special webpage which shows the information. At least it should be shown in an Addon somewhere in Torbrowser. I don't want to fiddle around in some local log files. Ben -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to

[tor-talk] How to specify exit node country for TorBrowser?

2016-03-08 Thread Ben Stover
Assume I downloaded and installed (under Win 7) TorBrowser package from here: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en It includes as far as I know everything I need including Vidalia and Tor. When I start the included TorBrowser (=firefox) then I can access successfully Intern

Re: [tor-talk] Transparent proxy question

2016-03-07 Thread Ben Tasker
> Is there some way to pass these two options to a remote machine over the TCP channel? Afaik, no. But you could configure the remote machine to transparently proxy and then on your router configure interesting traffic to use that as a gateway - I use Policy Based Routing to direct port 80 traffic

Re: [tor-talk] Is it possible to use Tor without showing a Tor IP to the destination?

2016-02-21 Thread Ben Tasker
ter to the VPS owner. > -- > 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 > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@l

Re: [tor-talk] Multicast Onion Services for video-streaming?

2016-01-17 Thread Ben Tasker
means adding 3 200Mb/s relays. Alternatively as it's tiered, the edge knows nothing about the origin, so you could conceivably have the edges also act as relays. There's a bit of setup involved, but then even on the clearnet, delivering video to a lot of clients requires a bit of infrast

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

2016-01-15 Thread Ben Tasker
> Yes it does, unless the proxy server 'shares' information with facebook. By using a proxy, you're placing trust in the proxy operator, both to have configured things appropriately (I've seen some advertised as anonymous where X-Forwarded-For has been left enabled, deliberately or otherwise) and

Re: [tor-talk] Ordering a .onion EV certificate from Digitcert

2015-12-16 Thread Ben Tasker
torrent-live > node-Tor : https://www.github.com/Ayms/node-Tor > GitHub : https://www.github.com/Ayms > -- > 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 > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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] Fwd: [tor-relays] Tor Project slandered?

2015-11-13 Thread Ben Tasker
Tor is neutral. Criminal activity is just that. > Describe things less hollywood and people might think clearly. > > Robert > > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: [tor-relays] Tor Project slandered?

2015-11-04 Thread Ben Tasker
Sadly I don't think it'll make much difference. As a franchise, NCIS has been publicly criticised for it's portrayal of tech and "hacking" for years. My favourite being the 4 handed, no talking CND - https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Y2zo0JN2HE Basically, they don't and haven't ever given a toss about

Re: [tor-talk] Get Tor bridge via python code

2015-10-16 Thread Ben Tasker
r-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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

[tor-talk] Academic research journals

2015-10-07 Thread Ben Mezger
Hey guys, I am doing a small research about the Tor Network at my local university, and I wonder if anyone could recommend good articles/journals, about the Tor Network. I have found a few on the internet, but perhaps there are a few "must read" papers. I am interrested in the following topics;

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser and my location

2015-10-06 Thread Ben Tasker
arson McGuire wrote: > I tried to append (https://www.google.com/ncr/?noj=0&gws_rd=ssl) and I > get the 404 error code is all. > > > Kit McGuire > 206 N. Titel St. > Payson, AZ 85541 > 928.978.3795 > Check me out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KitMcGuire >

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser and my location

2015-10-06 Thread Ben Tasker
! > > Kit McGuire > 206 N. Titel St. > Payson, AZ 85541 > 928.978.3795 > Check me out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KitMcGuire > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torprojec

Re: [tor-talk] Making TBB undetectable!

2015-10-03 Thread Ben Tasker
than vanilla TBB > If you give us only one practical example that let destination sites > automatically separate TBB from vanilla Firefox or safari Assuming we're talking about an unmodified TBB? I'd start by trying to ascertain whether no-script is enabled. Working out wh

Re: [tor-talk] Making TBB undetectable!

2015-10-01 Thread Ben Tasker
> > I see this as a blocker, as this add-on is most likely detectable, yeah? > If not, how, in the same, less, or maybe a bit more, amount of resources do > you feel this could be accomplished? Manually, this becomes quite the task > as time progresses. Is this something that would be ad

Re: [tor-talk] Making TBB undetectable!

2015-10-01 Thread Ben Tasker
use the undetectablizer Add-on all the time hence detectable TBB users > won't become unique. > > Undetectability is a crucial requirement for privacy protection tools > and unfortunately seems that Tor developers don't wanna put their time > on this issue. I hope o

Re: [tor-talk] Multiple IP's

2015-09-24 Thread Ben Tasker
hat i can use something to > pretend Bans/Notifications that im using 2 accounts?Kind regards. > -- > 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 > -- Ben

Re: [tor-talk] OnionBalance Hidden Service has over 1 million successful hits in just 3 days

2015-07-09 Thread Ben
) which would result in a 304. IIRC it's also possible to have wget/curl do revalidations as well, though not sure why you'd want to in this instance. I wouldn't be surprised if the 404's were also a browser attempting to get a favicon. Jim wrote: > Ben wrote: > >

Re: [tor-talk] OnionBalance Hidden Service has over 1 million successful hits in just 3 days

2015-07-08 Thread Ben
1436409898 - Thu, 09 Jul 2015 02:44:58 There's no correlation between those times and entries in my Tor client's log. Ben wrote: > Seems plausible, though from what I have logged it's hard to tell. All > the time calculations are 0, which may mean that curl completely failed >

Re: [tor-talk] OnionBalance Hidden Service has over 1 million successful hits in just 3 days

2015-07-08 Thread Ben
e request was about to be made > then the circuit failed? I'm not overly familiar with the precise > nature of curl or apache logging systems. > > On 08/07/2015 15:39, Ben wrote: > >> From the client end, I've seen occasions where I couldn't connect > >> t

Re: [tor-talk] OnionBalance Hidden Service has over 1 million successful hits in just 3 days

2015-07-08 Thread Ben
>From the client end, I've seen occasions where I couldn't connect to the HS, though it's a very small percentage (around 1.5%). Count Status code 590 000 408391 200 000 being the code curl returns when it couldn't connect. In terms of time to serve, there's a fair range of variation in ter

Re: [tor-talk] OnionBalance Hidden Service has over 1 million successful hits in just 3 days

2015-07-05 Thread Ben
Much the same, but with some stats (some of which are likely irrelevant, but I poached the line from another script I use) #!/bin/bash torify curl -w "%{http_code},\"$HOST\",\"$URL\",\"%{url_effective}\",%{time_total},%{time_namelookup},%{time_connect},%{time_redirect},%{time_starttransfer},%{si

Re: [tor-talk] Fighting human trafficking (on Tor and elsewhere) with Python

2015-07-02 Thread Ben Tasker
//podcastinit.com/episode-12-eric-schles-on-fighting-human-trafficking-with-python.html > > > > -Chris > > > -- > 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/

Re: [tor-talk] do Cloudfare captchas ever work?

2015-06-23 Thread Ben Tasker
Cloudfare only offering their services to a few sites out > of the entire web? > > -- > 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 > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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 Browsers" on SourceForge

2015-06-07 Thread Ben Tasker
cial presence on that site. > > This is a sad form of "digital thuggery" which ultimately may need a > legislative fix - in the meantime, the consequence is more work for us > (but hopefully minimal) who admin projects. > > Good luck, > Zenaan > -- > 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 > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- 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

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