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

2018-02-08 Thread Dash Four
Roger Dingledine wrote: Using any browser with Tor besides Tor Browser is usually a bad idea: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#TBBOtherBrowser I disagree with that statement. It is certainly _not_ a bad idea, provided you know what you are doing. I don't use TBB, except when I am in "intern

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha is released

2016-11-06 Thread Dash Four
is for a different - older - version of gcc, but the point still stands). For the time being, I use "tor_cv_cflags_Wlogical_op=no" to disable this warning, but I am not sure whether this is the correct way of dealing with the issue. [1] http://seclists.org/wireshark/2013/Jan/6 N

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha is released

2016-10-22 Thread Dash Four
Nick Mathewson wrote: Hi, all! There is a new alpha release of the Tor source code, with fixes for a security bug. You should probably upgrade as packages become available. I am having trouble compiling this version. I get the WLogical-op warning and "logical '&&' with non-zero constant will

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: Orbot v15.1.2 released

2016-03-13 Thread Dash Four
Apologies for replying to this so late, but I've had a lot on my plate recently... I was finally able to test the newest version (below) with my set up (I use customised firewall/transproxy settings and a vpn - all outside orbot). The good news is that version now works with no major problems,

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

2016-01-13 Thread Dash Four
Nathan Freitas wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2016, at 11:12 PM, Nathan Freitas wrote: Stay tuned for our next beta update. Here's Orbot b15.1 Beta 2 (https://gitweb.torproject.org/orbot.git/commit/?id=a0b092856146e49b9c5056fc6f6adb070d76e0ef), which addresses a number of issues that you referenced,

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

2016-01-12 Thread Dash Four
Nathan Freitas wrote: I really don't understand how Orbot or Droidwalls iptables rules are co-existing with Android VPN. This is really a new one for me. I will make sure transproxy is working on Android 5.1 though, so that at least we can be sure we didn't break anything. I have completely re-de

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] DirServer, DirAuthority and AlternateDirAuthority options + related issues (Bug #10461)

2014-01-03 Thread Dash Four
I've reported the above bug, but decided to post on here as well and seek some advice. It looks as though tor ignores the value of any of the specified options above and I cannot control this. In addition, when I fetch a hidden service, (.onion address) sometimes, but not always, I get "Wanted

Re: [tor-talk] Phones for Tor

2013-07-25 Thread Dash Four
grarpamp wrote: This phone appears to be Windows-based. We have some trust in the MS stack concerning ability to execute code and move packets properly. Sniffing and sending the cleartext... that's an uknown but is reasonably verifiable by watching the network. You trust M$/Windows if

Re: [tor-talk] Phones for Tor

2013-07-24 Thread Dash Four
grarpamp wrote: http://guardianrom.com/ This is a new find, thanks. Interesting option this, pity the documentation is virtually non-existent (how to build/use etc). http://www.cryptophone.de/en/products/mobile/ There is no guarantee about hardware level security, as you

Re: [tor-talk] Large search providers banning Tor exists, except for one!

2013-05-04 Thread Dash Four
Karsten N. wrote: Firefox search plug-ins for DuckDuckGo (SSL, Tor hidden...) you may find at mycroftproject.com: http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=duckduckgo Indeed. very useful too - it allows you to configure your search engine the way you want it: - to have/not hav

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-19 Thread Mr Dash Four
IMO, only stupid idiot doesn't use https with gmail. That's why I think all talkings about gmail and beeing hacked is useless. Let him set "Use always https" in the gmail settings, then log out, log in, change password and secure q/answer and that's all. This should be about Tor and Tor close

Re: [tor-talk] duckduckgo.com blocking tor users?

2012-04-13 Thread Mr Dash Four
I can reach it via Tor; maybe you have a bad exit node or luck. It must have been a glitch. I did restart tor and forced to reset its data though and still couldn't get through. Tried about 10 minutes later with the same result. DDG seems to be back to normal I am pleased to confirm! ___

[tor-talk] duckduckgo.com blocking tor users?

2012-04-12 Thread Mr Dash Four
That didn't last long, did it? The block seems to be across both http and https protocols on the same domain (duckduckgo.com). ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Orbot and firewall?

2012-03-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
Careful, troll. It takes one to know one! Mike is concerned with practical security against likely adversaries, so his reasons for using the software might be nuanced, depending on who he believes his adversary is. For example, his blog post https://grepular.com/Protecting_a_Laptop_from_Simp

Re: [tor-talk] Orbot and firewall?

2012-03-20 Thread Mr Dash Four
Here's the app on the google market: [...etc...] For someone who "isn't affiliated" with this piece of closed-source software (thus, questionable credentials as far as people's privacy is concerned) you seem pretty determined to shove it down everyone's throat quite intensely! __

Re: [tor-talk] Functioning Google scraper / search engine?

2012-03-16 Thread Mr Dash Four
Incorrect. With Duckduckgo JS is optional. This wasn't always the case, and they changed it to make people like us happy. True, I take that back (see my previous post)! ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproje

Re: [tor-talk] Functioning Google scraper / search engine?

2012-03-16 Thread Mr Dash Four
duckduckgo.comf/html - without javascripts Indeed (assuming it was "duckduckgo.com" - without the "f")! For Firefox users out there - http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=duckduckgo and then pick up your choice of: 1) NO JS; 2) with SSL; and 3) NO filter/Ads (I thought the

Re: [tor-talk] Functioning Google scraper / search engine?

2012-03-16 Thread Mr Dash Four
With Tor your privacy is disjoint from which search engine you use. If by "disjoint" you mean irrelevant, I disagree - having tor does not guarantee you privacy - this hard fact is communicated to everyone who bothers reading the first line of output to the console when tor starts - tor do

Re: [tor-talk] Functioning Google scraper / search engine?

2012-03-16 Thread Mr Dash Four
Others have mentioned them, and in my experience Duckduckgo, Ixquick, and Startpage all work over Tor and HTTPS, and don't require Javascript. Nope, all of them do - one cursory look at the source of their main web page will tell you that, not to mention that some of these "search engines"

Re: [tor-talk] Functioning Google scraper / search engine?

2012-03-14 Thread Mr Dash Four
Are there any working Google scraper alternatives https://startpage.com/ ... or some alterantive actually usable Tor-friendly search engine out there? https://duckduckgo.com/ https://ixquick.com/ All of them are fucking shit [1] - if you value your own privacy, that is!

Re: [tor-talk] ? A1

2012-02-28 Thread Mr Dash Four
Besides the usual countries, my Bridge Usage Summary now shows "A1" with no flag ("?" in the leftmost column). What does A1 mean? - eliaz ID: C3E1E38D It is a range, which belongs to satellite devices (mobiles and the like) and is normally not made to a specific country, as far as I kno

Re: [tor-talk] how can I direct specific ports to tor?

2012-02-26 Thread Mr Dash Four
i would like to direct specific ports 995 and 465 to tor across system, instead of using a global http/socks5 proxy for 'catch all'. is privoxy/polipo the right tool for this? is proxytunnel useful also? i know this is not a proxy howto list but can someone help or teach me to make some spec

Re: [tor-talk] Tor version in OpenWRT Backfire

2012-02-24 Thread Mr Dash Four
The tor version in the current stable OpenWRT, 10.3.1 "Backfire", is 0.2.1.30, which complains on startup that it is too old. I would like to get a more recent version included in Backfire. Could any of the tor developers comment which version of tor is suitable for inclusion in a long-term st

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-22 Thread Mr Dash Four
He obviously doesn't want help, doesn't want to contribute & apparently thinks somehow, if he says which addons he's using in (Aurora?) that we could instantly look up his home address. Nope, none of the above. As for whether I have to give you, or anybody else, a comprehensive list of the bro

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-22 Thread Mr Dash Four
Due to the way in which you've been acting, you are no more trustworthy than a fly-by-night website with a .cc domain. I don't really care whether you think I am trustworthy or not - I am certainly not going to lose any sleep over it, quite frankly. Generally, when you make a claim that y

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-22 Thread Mr Dash Four
http://privatelee.com/ Javascript Privatelee requires Javascript to work. We promise to not abuse your trust. Please turn on Javascript to view Privatelee.com in action (domains privatelee.com and qrobe.it). We do not display popups, non-text ads, set any uniquely identifiable or any ad

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
Mr Dash Four is one of those people who write their letters in all caps using large fonts because they don't really want to hear what we are saying. Like a two year old, he wants his food handed to him on a silver platter. Yeah, as if! You don't really know me,

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
I'd rather figure out exactly what ixquick.com and startpage.com are doing. Is it really so difficult for you to provide us with the names of the browser plugins you used at the time? Do you think I have the word "GOOFY" written across my forehead by any chance?

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
Because you wont be taken seriously by anyone otherwise. Eh?! Why do you think I care what you, or anybody, thinks? You and your "low-key" friend are an irrelevance - I know what I saw when I accessed those two sites earlier today and nothing will compel me to access them ever again, or us

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
I have no reason to believe that you're actually seeing that warning unless you provide some evidence. Really?! And who the hell do you think you are, exactly?! Please enlighten me, and explain why should I provide you with *any* additional "evidence" at all? Until I have read your "recom

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
A lot of sites are incredibly "broken" if javascript is disabled. NoScript would be one example of a "privacy plugin" that would thus cause a problem if enabled for some sites. It's why I'm curious as to what the plugin was that you were using. I haven't been using ixquick for very long, and s

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
I guess I'm just a bit confused, as I've not run into any issues or warnings with ixquick.com yet. Were you able to determine what the possibly "problematic" plugin was? To put it simply - I am not at all interested in any of that. If a search-engine site is there to present search resul

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
Again, the msg you are seeing may not accurately describe the problem. It does to me! A search engine is interested in my browser privacy settings and whether I use "privacy-oriented browser extensions". It goes on to "advice" me to turn OFF my "privacy-oriented browser extensions" in order t

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
Scroogle, is/was the best out there - by a mile! Nothing even comes close, unfortunately! What about ixquick.com? See my previous posts on the subject. ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
Well, seeks does works fine with SSL, that's how my node is working. Yeah, using some mickey-mouse self-signed certificate - you can't be serious! ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailma

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
Would be interesting to find out which particular aspect of your configuration is leading to that error message. That is not the issue - the fact that startpage is snooping to see whether I use "privacy-oriented browser extension" should be good-enough reason for any sane individual out the

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
Why did you pick seeks over YaCy? Neither are any good - from what I gather, yacy requires software installed on my machine (yeah, right, why would I want to pollute my machine with some unknown software for the "privilege" of using a bloody search engine?) and seeks isn't any good either,

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
I've tried DuckduckGo, It isn't for heavy engine users. It seems like a childrens search engine, and it has a lousy results format format. I don't understand how Ixquick/Startpage can tap Google, yet Google goes out of its way to crush Scroogle, which was by far the best out of what I've found

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-21 Thread Mr Dash Four
I've started using this instead: https://startpage.com/ It provides Google search results, supports https, works without javascript enabled, seems to be hosted in the Netherlands and they take a good approach to privacy: https://startpage.com/eng/protect-privacy.html "You may be using a pri

Re: [tor-talk] tor-blocking sites

2012-02-08 Thread Mr Dash Four
Currently, what happens is that sites just ban/blacklist the IPs, often automatically and "forever". Yep! Scroogle Scroogle is currently having trouble scraping Google. Maybe Dash Fours problems with it are unrelated to Tor? Nope. I am well aware of this and it isn't an issue which

Re: [tor-talk] tor-blocking sites

2012-02-06 Thread Mr Dash Four
Yes. There are plenty of lists of open single-hop SOCKS proxies, and software exists to "chain" SOCKS proxies. Just create a chain in some such software that is Tor -> , and you've circumvented such a block. How? The exit node regularly changes and I'll be chasing shadows. _

[tor-talk] tor-blocking sites

2012-02-06 Thread Mr Dash Four
I am sick of them all! Initially, there was a small number of these in the wild, but now it is widely spread - google is the main offender, but youtube (which is, as we all know, google-owned) and now, wait for it, scroogle.org (a site I use a lot) is also at it! Tor-blocking could be very e