Re: [tor-talk] We need help.

2013-08-04 Thread David Vorick
On at least some level I can understand blocking porn and violence. But why would you block things like bulimia and anorexia and suicide? On a personal level, access to suicide related literature helped me out during a depression. On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Jamie Miller wrote: > Hi, my nam

Re: [tor-talk] Speculation: Next 10 years of Tor?

2013-07-09 Thread David Vorick
I hope that onion routing comes a long way in the next 10 years, but I'm not necessarily for tor still being around. Right now it's needed because there's no good replacement, but I think that a better future would have a prominent onion-routed meshnet instead of Tor, especially if lots of the rout

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread David Vorick
I can only speak for myself, but I stayed away from mailing lists when I was a 'newb' because they seemed strange and technical. This is also back at a time when I did not use email very often. I think that how much you use email is closely related to how much you like mailing lists. As someone wh

Re: [tor-talk] How do I use TorTalk mailing list?

2013-05-23 Thread David Vorick
if you were to reply to a digest, would only the people who get a digest see the reply? On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 23.05.2013 13:25, Nathan Suchy wrote: > > I figured out I can post topics but how do I reply to one? Also for a > note > > my messages are sent to me

Re: [tor-talk] You could use ModX to create .onion sites,

2013-05-23 Thread David Vorick
I'm not sure if this deserves its own thread, but I've been looking around for a decent guide on building your own hidden service. The idea of course is to be perfectly safe, even in the event of a highly trafficked site that has content which would draw the attention of many authorities. It looks

Re: [tor-talk] Tor's reputation problem with pedo, some easy steps the community could take

2013-05-17 Thread David Vorick
Except I think that in this case Tor is a bit more like a gun than a screw driver. The good purposes aren't always obvious and the nefarious purposes are on the forefront of public attention a lot more. It's not a perfect analogy but I think you see what I'm getting at. The purpose of Tor is to li

Re: [tor-talk] memory cached pages should reload instantly-but DON'T

2013-05-07 Thread David Vorick
Are we sure this is a bug? Even when a page is in the cache doesn't it have to communicate with the server to verify that the cache hasn't expired? Perhaps this is what you are experiencing. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Tom Ritter wrote: > Hm, that's an tough question. TBB doesn't modify th

Re: [tor-talk] torslap!

2013-05-02 Thread David Vorick
What if you had something like exit nodes that required proof-of-work or bitcoin-to-use in order to be used, as per-choice of the person running the node? You would have a bunch of 'unsafe' exit nodes that behave like exit nodes today, and then a bunch of 'difficult' exit nodes that require user ef

Re: [tor-talk] HTML5 video and Tor anonymity.

2013-05-01 Thread David Vorick
I don't know what I'm talking about, but here goes: If you were to put flash in a "sandbox" that had a fake IP address, might that make the sandbox incompatible with the tor network? When you are communicating, even over the tor network, your IP address is critical so that servers on the other end

Re: [tor-talk] Tor's reputation problem with pedo, some easy steps the community could take

2013-04-29 Thread David Vorick
Part of the problem is that Tor is really inconvenient to use. The only people who hang out on Tor are criminals because generally, it's only worth the trouble if you are a criminal. Bitcoin faced the same problem. Bitcoin was used primarily by criminals until it became more interesting for other

Re: [tor-talk] torslap!

2013-04-23 Thread David Vorick
The first problem that I see with this is the '5 hours average.' If a malicious group got an ASIC but the poor guy from who-knows-where has 10yo hardware, it may be impossible to balance the cost of doing a 'torslap.' A bigger problem might be getting people to accept 'torslaps' because it could b