[tor-talk] tor-relay-bootstrap -- automated setup for a Tor bridge, relay, and exit

2015-09-25 Thread Colin Mahns
Hi all! Wrapped up a mini-project of mine a few hours ago, which was a re-working of Micah Lee's tor-relay-bootstrap script. The main improvements I've added are making it work on Debian Jessie, merging in _NSAKEY's tor-bridge-bootstrap fork, along with adding options to set up your server to be

Re: [tor-talk] tor + twitter issues

2015-09-14 Thread Colin Mahns
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Re: [tor-talk] tor + twitter issues

2015-09-13 Thread Colin Mahns
* Tempest [2015-09-14 00:08:44 +]: to sum up, twitter now appears to be desiring phone numbers from tor users in order to use their service. without feedback, i expect this will get worse. over the past 30 days, twitter has regularly locked me out and required password resets. this is the f

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: I Encourage Everyone, Right Here And Now, To Donate Money To His Three Main Security Programs, Which He Uses The Most!

2015-02-06 Thread Colin Mahns
Happy to say I sent some BTC over to Werner (as well as OTR, Tor, i2p, and a few other pieces of privacy software) the day before Jacob and Laura's talk at 31c3. Was a great feeling to see that the money I donated went to a tool that works :) With free software we own our means of production,

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2015-01-10 Thread Colin Mahns
I've also gotten nowhere with Erowid setting up a HS, they seemed supportive but have not contacted me in over a week. Colin On January 10, 2015 5:12:11 PM EST, Katya Titov wrote: >Katya Titov: >> Colin Mahns: >>> I'm wondering if a few from the community shoul

Re: [tor-talk] riseup.net onion

2015-01-05 Thread Colin Mahns
This might be a question to ask micah or the other birds in their IRC channel. I'm not sure if they run a hidden service for their main page. The list I believe you are talking about [0] is the only doc I know of where they list the hidden services they own. [0]: https://www.riseup.net/en/tor

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2015-01-02 Thread Colin Mahns
If I'm not mistaken, DuckDuckGo used to run an exit enclave but ended up moving over to a hidden service. Not sure if their reasons for moving over to a HS were documented in the same way as their exit enclave blog. Colin On January 2, 2015 3:25:32 AM EST, Katya Titov wrote: >Virgil Griffith:

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2015-01-01 Thread Colin Mahns
Awesome! Love the document title by the way :) If I think of anything more to add, I'll be sure to edit it in. Colin On January 1, 2015 7:46:22 PM EST, Katya Titov wrote: >Colin Mahns: >> I've written up an example email here: >> >http://zerobinqmdqd

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2015-01-01 Thread Colin Mahns
l free to improve on it, I based it off of emails I've sent in the past. I'm not sure if we should list security concerns in the general sense, or if we should point to a real life example of where a hidden service was utilized for security reasons. Colin Katya Titov: > Colin Mahns: &

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2014-12-31 Thread Colin Mahns
That was my fault, must've deleted a character by mistake. https://github.com/chris-barry/darkweb-everywhere is the right link I missed the "performed in conjunction with the organisation", looks like we were saying the same thing. I'm wondering if a few from the community should take part in a

Re: [tor-talk] Giving Hidden Services some love

2014-12-31 Thread Colin Mahns
> This could be combined with a change to HTTPS Everywhere to prefer HS > sites over clear web sites, just as it prefers HTTPS over HTTP. (I > think this has been mentioned before?) You mean like what we've been doing over on https://github.com/chris-barr/darkweb-everywhere? :) The above tool (gr

Re: [tor-talk] running a stable exit node on a Raspberry Pi B+ (can it handle it?)

2014-12-24 Thread Colin Mahns
I wouldn't recommend using a rPi for a Tor bridge/relay. It's far too underpowered in my mind to be useful for anyone. If anything, it might harm the network by introducing slow hops. A spare computer or a VPS would be better here. As far as your bandwidth settings those seem fine, you should

Re: [tor-talk] Thinking about running a bridge but have some questions

2014-12-20 Thread Colin Mahns
By default your bridge is submitted to the bridge-db. Distribution is via bridges.torproject.org and emailing brid...@torproject.org, as well as whoever you tell to use your bridge. (Someone please correct me if I'm missing something here) Colin Cypher: > I already run a exit but I want to do mor

Re: [tor-talk] Mirrors now available over Hidden Services

2014-12-14 Thread Colin Mahns
I believe Facebook and Blockchain both used Digicert to issue a .onion cert. If I'm not mistaken Runa has worked with both teams? Colin On December 14, 2014 8:44:57 PM EST, Thomas White wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA512 > >Christian Gagneraud: >>> We will be seeking to o

Re: [tor-talk] Mirrors now available over Hidden Services

2014-12-14 Thread Colin Mahns
Awesome, thanks for doing this! Colin Thomas White: > I'm happy to announce that both my Globe and Atlas mirrors are now > available as a hidden service for all those who prefer end-to-end > encryption over Tor! > > Atlas: http://atlas777hhh7mcs7.onion > > Globe: http://globe223ezvh6bps.onion >

Re: [tor-talk] HR4681 Sec 309 communication privacy legislation

2014-12-14 Thread Colin Mahns
Probably. I'm sure it implies any communications that pass through the United States. Colin On December 14, 2014 4:27:13 PM EST, I wrote: >Does that apply all over the world? > > >> From: tim.mitche...@outlook.com >> Sent: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:39:27 -0800 >> To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >>

Re: [tor-talk] Off topic- Android is suspect spyware?

2014-12-09 Thread Colin Mahns
You might be interested in this: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardening-android-security-and-privacy Orwall can be used as a replacement for the droidwall scripts. Colin andr...@fastmail.fm: > Anything that google touches or promotes is very suspicious. Now that > Android

Re: [tor-talk] Facebook brute forcing hidden services

2014-11-01 Thread Colin Mahns
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Re: [tor-talk] Facebook brute forcing hidden services

2014-10-31 Thread Colin Mahns
Thank you for doing this! I'm glad to see a site as huge as facebook has decided to start implementing a HS for their users. Colin On October 31, 2014 8:35:50 AM EDT, Alec Muffett wrote: >Hi - My name¹s Alec, I work for Facebook and am the team lead for >Facebook >over Tor. > >Long story short

Re: [tor-talk] tor browser speed.

2014-10-05 Thread Colin Mahns
Re: Tor Browser Speed -- your Tor connection is only as fast as the slowest hop. The bottleneck most likely isn't your home ISP, but one of the relays in your Tor circuit. Jan was saying you should consider donating bandwidth and becoming a Tor relay. Anonymity works well in numbers :) On Oct

Re: [tor-talk] Article: Best Alternatives to Tor

2014-09-22 Thread Colin Mahns
I like how a couple of the alternatives to "Tor" in this article are Tails and Whonix. What do they use for anonymity again? Oh yeah, Tor... They also list Disconnect and Tox as an alternative, and then quickly say they aren't alternatives. I'd say this writer was hoping for clickbait. Colin Vir

Re: [tor-talk] What should our 31c3 talk be?

2014-09-08 Thread Colin Mahns
I was actually going to suggest that idea Griffin, you beat me to it :) I like the idea of another State of the Onion address like last year's talk (a LOT more has been written about Tor in the past few months alone), or Damian's suggestion of another Tor ecosystem talk. There are a lot more proje