Re: [tor-talk] Harvard student used Tor to send bomb threats, gets caught by old-fashioned policework

2013-12-19 Thread DeveloperChris
On 20/12/2013 2:05 PM, David wrote: The way that we know that Tor is relatively safe is that it is open source and transparent. The government isn't monolithic. There are different branches of government that have different interests. It is in the interest of certain branches of US governm

Re: [tor-talk] Harvard student used Tor to send bomb threats, gets caught by old-fashioned policework

2013-12-19 Thread DeveloperChris
Regards Developer Chris developerch...@rebel.com.au On 20/12/2013 12:24 PM, Mirimir wrote: On 12/19/2013 06:37 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: This is going seriously OT, so I'll cease after this post. Using Tor to make bomb threats is clearly off-topic for tor-talk. Was anyone that's commented defend

Re: [tor-talk] A question about hidden services and tor in general

2013-11-04 Thread DeveloperChris
On 04/11/2013 3:24 AM, grarpamp wrote: HS -> Guard -> Middle -> Middle -> Rendpoint <- Middle <- Guard <- Client I hate to say it that gives me no confidence at all. Only the randomly chosen guard at the HS end needs to be compromised and the whole chain becomes worthless. A timing attack will r

Re: [tor-talk] A question about hidden services and tor in general

2013-11-02 Thread DeveloperChris
On 02/11/2013 8:19 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 02:45:51AM -0700, Andrea Shepard wrote: Snip Actually, technically, the analogy would be trying to deanonymize a client from a subverted website. The Tor client running the hidden service picks its own three hops, so it's

Re: [tor-talk] New to list and questions about exit nodes

2013-11-02 Thread DeveloperChris
nlikely to get much more than that out of him, he would consider anything else a security leak. DC Please keep the replies civil. I know there is one in every crowd. Don't be that one. On 02/11/2013 6:16 PM, Michael Wolf wrote: On 11/2/2013 2:33 AM, DeveloperChris wrote: I got to s

Re: [tor-talk] Project Gutenberg

2013-11-02 Thread DeveloperChris
On 01/11/2013 12:39 AM, mick wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:59:39 +1030 DeveloperChris allegedly wrote: Could exit nodes act as caches. I know that would introduce a number of issues including a compromised exit node revealing what was retrieved by that node (but not whom for) so if it was

Re: [tor-talk] New to list and questions about exit nodes

2013-11-02 Thread DeveloperChris
every crowd. Don't be that one. On 26/10/2013 10:25 AM, DeveloperChris wrote: Hi Roger Thanks. I need to confirm the story as I got it through a third party. What you are suggesting is a rooky mistake. If he says he was compromised I can tell you for sure he was compromised. I will se

Re: [tor-talk] A question about hidden services and tor in general

2013-11-02 Thread DeveloperChris
On 11/01/2013 06:16 PM, DeveloperChris wrote: I just reviewed the tor hidden services page. so I am pretty green about the way it works. From the description I gather this When a client wants to connect to a hidden service an introducer picks a random rendezvious point which then is used to sh

[tor-talk] A question about hidden services and tor in general

2013-11-01 Thread DeveloperChris
I just reviewed the tor hidden services page. so I am pretty green about the way it works. From the description I gather this When a client wants to connect to a hidden service an introducer picks a random rendezvious point which then is used to shuttle packets back and forth between the c

Re: [tor-talk] Project Gutenberg

2013-11-01 Thread DeveloperChris
Whats up with this dickhead? On 01/11/2013 4:03 AM, antispa...@sent.at wrote: On 31.10.2013 07:29, DeveloperChris wrote: Project Gutenberg wouldn't block proxies without good reason. The trouble is without knowing the reason its hard to find a fix. One possible reason hinted in the me

Re: [tor-talk] Project Gutenberg

2013-10-31 Thread DeveloperChris
Project Gutenberg wouldn't block proxies without good reason. The trouble is without knowing the reason its hard to find a fix. One possible reason hinted in the message is they have bandwidth issues. Which raises an interesting thought. Interesting to me anyway. Could exit nodes act as cac

Re: [tor-talk] PrivateCore the real deal or snake oil?

2013-10-29 Thread DeveloperChris
I personally had a chuckle at the snake oil comment, I also second Justin's response below DC On 30/10/2013 5:16 AM, Justin Bull wrote: Hi Oded, It was an off-the-cuff remark about the use of the phrase "PRISM-proof". That's akin to the phrase "unbreakable encryption", a phrase most cryptogra

Re: [tor-talk] duck duck go

2013-10-28 Thread DeveloperChris
Oh and yeah its privacy related I don't like extensions spying on my search DC On 28/10/2013 8:55 PM, Felix Eckhofer wrote: Am 28.10.2013 10:27, schrieb DeveloperChris: I have used this in the past and the thread reminded me so I thought I would give it another go. I installed the du

[tor-talk] duck duck go

2013-10-28 Thread DeveloperChris
Someone mentioned duck duck go as a search engine I have used this in the past and the thread reminded me so I thought I would give it another go. I installed the duckduckgo search into firefox's search engine list. Seems as thought DDG was not happy when I decided I didn't like the results

Re: [tor-talk] New to list and questions about exit nodes

2013-10-25 Thread DeveloperChris
e not acquittance damn spell checkers. DC On 26/10/2013 5:34 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 06:01:51PM +1030, DeveloperChris wrote: An acquittance of mine created a tor exit node, I know little detail more than that other than he was banned by services such as skype and ebay

Re: [tor-talk] New to list and questions about exit nodes

2013-10-25 Thread DeveloperChris
sation :) or is that a bad joke? DC On 25/10/2013 7:28 PM, Michael Wolf wrote: On 10/25/2013 3:31 AM, DeveloperChris wrote: Hi all I am new to this list and to TOR in general Welcome! An acquittance of mine created a tor exit node, I know little detail more than that other than he was banned b

[tor-talk] New to list and questions about exit nodes

2013-10-25 Thread DeveloperChris
Hi all I am new to this list and to TOR in general Recently I have been thinking about creating a TOR exit node, but my discussions with other people now make me concerned. An acquittance of mine created a tor exit node, I know little detail more than that other than he was banned by services