Re: [tor-talk] Putin's fascist band intend to ban the Tor

2012-09-21 Thread Edward Thompson
They're using the same argument as everywhere else: there are laws in place that ban access to harmful sites, namely child porn. Child pornographers and other "criminals" use circumventing technology such as proxies and Tor to bypass the ban. Therefore, if you love children, ban all proxies! And th

Re: [tor-talk] How dangerous are DNS leak?

2012-09-17 Thread Edward Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to add to this question: can a DNS request be used to track which IP addresses have visited which sites (assuming that your ISP is not a threat)? Cheers, Ed > hello! > > How dangerous are the DNS leak for some user? If I understand, the ma

Re: [tor-talk] Logging on to Tor

2012-09-14 Thread Edward Thompson
Hi Hugh, No such thing as a stupid question! Can you give us some more information about your computer, which operating system are you using, what version of Tor Browser Bundle did you install and how... when you start it the way you do, do you see the little onion icon in the system tray? Chee

Re: [tor-talk] Anonymous Publishing Is Dead.

2012-07-01 Thread Edward Thompson
Dear Anonymous Person, I have to admit, it was a very interesting read, even though I am not too sure I agree completely. It seems as if your threat model has encompassed every single tiny thing that could possibly (theoretically) go wrong, without much thought given to real-world randomness and i

Re: [tor-talk] How to get browser after closing it ?

2012-05-28 Thread Edward Thompson
Good question, it's been bugging me since they introduced TBB. The best alternative I came up with it having it constantly running and just moving the browser to a different desktop (in linux). Hopefully they'll figure something out soon! On 05/28/2012 03:20 PM, Runa A. Sandvik wrote: > On Mon, M

Re: [tor-talk] uploading content

2012-05-05 Thread Edward Thompson
A secure VPN (meaning no logging, and anonymous payment) with Tor, plus HTTPS or FTPS to the server you want to upload to... https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorPlusVPN > What are the most recent recommendations to securely and easily upload > files/content to websites using Tor?