[tor-talk] GMail spam blocks

2014-05-01 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I've now sent 3 messages to (ironically) a Google employee about his blog posts on the Chrome CRLSet cert revocation issue[1] after Heartbleed; all three have been blocked as GMail by spam. I've never had this issue before. I routinely route email

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Project and Youtube is blocked in Turkey too

2014-03-27 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Kus, Kus: > Harmony: >> >> Might be worth spreading some mirrors around (on that Twitter >> website that no one can get to)? Last week, for example, there >> was a new one set up in Turkey: http://tor.kslt.tk/. > > Thanks for the link. Many Tur

Re: [tor-talk] TLS/SSL SMTP MitM

2014-03-11 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 grarpamp: >> how to quickly find out what exit was being used so I can tattle >> on it > > controller usefeature extended_events usefeature verbose_names > getinfo stream-status getinfo circuit-status setevents stream > setevents circ Thanks...

Re: [tor-talk] Craigslist...

2014-03-11 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 grarpamp: > ... seems to have changed its advisory format for blocking you from > *reading* their site. Note the 't', for Tor?, and shorter 4 digit > length which I've elided for now. If anyone has made direct talk > with Craigslist regarding their r

Re: [tor-talk] TLS/SSL SMTP MitM

2014-03-10 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Joe, Joe Btfsplk: [snip] > That's one complaint about TBB 3.5 series - took away the ability > to see a map of relays. Though I personally had what seemed like > "bugginess" w/ Vidalia, you can still get the stand alone version > to use w/ TBB 3.

Re: [tor-talk] MaxMemInCellQueues questions

2014-03-10 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi s7r, I can't answer most of your questions offhand, but this may have something useful: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9686 It's a bug I opened about the setting on low-memory machines. s...@sky-ip.org: [snip] > -- in this case

[tor-talk] TLS/SSL SMTP MitM

2014-03-10 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi there, I have been doing some testing of sending email over Tor and today ran into a definite BadExit (but not flagged, clearly) because there was a blatant MitM attempt on three separate occasions when I initiated a TLS/SSL SMTP connection to my

[tor-talk] TIMB vs TextSecure

2014-03-01 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi there, With the news hitting some tech sites about TIMB, I went digging around briefly to find the reasoning for rolling something anew rather than backing e.g. TextSecure. (I know there are serious questions about the security of Telegram.) I'm

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-04 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Juan Garofalo: > > > I'm wondering if I got this right: > > The NSA is supposed to be concerned only with 'national security' > issues and can't spy on 'ordinary Americans'. In practice the NSA > spies on everyone paying no attention to 'legal' r

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-04 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Roger Dingledine: > To be more concrete, their job here is to link the guy to the > website. So if they had a pretty good idea of who the guy was, but > not enough evidence to bust him, it makes sense to me that they > would go find one of the server

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-04 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Rejo Zenger: > ++ 03/10/13 13:49 -0400 - Ahmed Hassan: >> One question is still remain unanswered. How did they locate >> Silkroad server before locating him? >> >> They had full image of the server before his arrest. > > Where have you read this o

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-03 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jonathan D. Proulx: > 2) Traditional police work still works - this should be good news > to the law and order folks that traditional methods still work and > no extensive digital survailance state is needed. > > Note I'm only anecdotally familiar

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-03 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Roger Dingledine: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 01:34:37AM +, mirimir wrote: >> Wow. I just read the complaint :8 >> >> He was unfathomably stupid. Words cannot express how stupid he >> was. >> >> This has absolutely no relevance to the Tor network

Re: [tor-talk] Exit node stats collection?

2013-09-04 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 mirimir: [snip] > Perhaps these 1.8e+6 (standard stats) to 4.0e+6 (beta stats) new > Tor clients members of a botnet designed, at least in part, to > securely and redundantly host hidden services. The demise of > Freedom Hosting may have stimulated s

Re: [tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

2013-09-04 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Asa Rossoff: [snip] > Whatever the case, I do hope that the larger pattern is not an > attack on Tor, which would seem to be the major concern. If > there's more interest and demand, that will ultimately be good for > the success of Tor, I would thi

Re: [tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

2013-09-04 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sebastian G. : > 03.09.2013 17:35, adrelanos: >> New hypothesis: This is an attempt to shut down the Tor network >> once and forever. >> >> [...] > > Beside an existing botnet that now makes use of Tor (rising clients > due to updates) or a new bot

Re: [tor-talk] Exit node stats collection?

2013-09-04 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 mirimir: > It's common for Tor exits to block port 25, I believe. And anyone > capable of building a Tor-based botnet would know that, so I doubt > that they'd be sending email via Tor. You'd think so. And yet, Mediawiki spammers are *still* spamm

Re: [tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

2013-09-04 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 elrippo: > Am Dienstag, 3. September 2013, 15:35:04 schrieb adrelanos: >> New hypothesis: This is an attempt to shut down the Tor network >> once and forever. >> >> Might this be an attack on the Tor network with the goal to make >> it that slow f

Re: [tor-talk] Contents of PirateBrowser 0.6b

2013-09-02 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Andrew F: > Are these guys sponsoring any Servers? Kinda rude if they are > not. Absolutely. I hope they are, but if they were, you'd kinda think they'd probably have told somebody. So I'm assuming not. Best, - -Gordon M. > > > On Sat, Aug

Re: [tor-talk] Iranian users cannot download Orbot from Google play store

2013-09-02 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Nathan Freitas: > > > Sherief Alaa wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Over the past couple of days Iranian users have been complaining >> about not being able to download Orbot from Google's play store >> (error 403). [snip] > Otherwise, you can also find

Re: [tor-talk] Referers being sent from hidden service websites

2013-08-30 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 bm-2d8jtri23dyth7whmaldhsvhdfwp91z...@bitmessage.ch: > I also opened a ticket: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9623 > > Currently, when browsing on a hidden service website, when you > click on a clearnet/hidden service link it sen

Re: [tor-talk] Appearing American

2013-08-24 Thread Gordon Morehouse
. > > You may be. I wasn't. The initial question was about how to use tor > to specifically ensure a US based IP source address (hence the > subject line). Gordon Morehouse recommended a commercial VPN as an > /alternative/ to tor. My question (and that of others) was how that > wo

Re: [tor-talk] [tor-relays] Upgrading an obfsbridge to the latest alpha on git master, on raspberry pi

2013-08-22 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Kostas Jakeliunas: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Peter Palfrader > wrote: > >> Maybe you should build .deb package from these sources? >> https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian#source > > > Ah! debuild && dpkg -i. Yes, that's the cleaner wa

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Mail Gateway

2013-08-18 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Moritz Bartl: > On 18.08.2013 19:51, Gordon Morehouse wrote: >>>> This isn't gonna cut it. A Tormail replacement that's any >>>> good, that's reliable, that's censorship-resistant, that's >>

Re: [tor-talk] Appearing American

2013-08-18 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 mick: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 10:32:13 -0700 Gordon Morehouse > allegedly wrote: >> >> Your best bet if you *need* an American IP is to use a VPN. >> > > I'm sorry Gordon but I think this needs to be said. On a

Re: [tor-talk] Replacement for Tormail

2013-08-18 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 grarpamp: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Gordon Morehouse > wrote: >> This isn't gonna cut it. A Tormail replacement that's any good, >> that's reliable, that's censorship-resistant, that's hardene

Re: [tor-talk] Appearing American

2013-08-18 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 B Sairafi: > Hello > > I'm using Tor Browser, and I need to be seen by a specific website > as if I'm in the US. Is this possible? I mean, is this a feature > you already have? It's *possible* but it's not easy, and it's not a feature. You could u

Re: [tor-talk] Replacement for Tormail

2013-08-12 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Edgar S: > The function of Tormail I need that suggested solutions don't seem > to have is the ability to receive and reply to clear text ordinary > Email sent from a non-secure SMTP. This is a dealbreaker. It has to have this. I wish some trusted