Re: [tor-talk] US Senate Virtual Currency Hearing Summary

2013-11-18 Thread author
Ernie Allen from the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children was a real disappointment, insofar as his statements about anonymity and government control were incredibly myopic. If your plan to protect children is to initiate force against people of all ages, you're going to hav

[tor-talk] How secure is check.torproject.org?

2013-11-17 Thread author
If I were going to perform a de-anonymization attack on Tor users en masse, I would take advantage of the fact that TorBrowser and Tails Linux* both load a page with client-side scripting enabled upon startup. How secure is this single point of failure? I'm also curious if it would be possible

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 23th, 2013

2013-10-24 Thread author
By changing the browser fingerprint, do you mean altering the HTTP request headers, such as the User-agent? You'd need to decrypt SSL/TLS traffic in order to modify the headers of any request sent over SSL/TLS, so that limits you to plaintext HTTP traffic. You COULD alter HTTP request headers

Re: [tor-talk] TBB and tor-relays as a bitcoin wallets

2013-10-22 Thread author
Pay-to-route seems likely in the future for the capitalists amongst participants in P2P routing networks. Bitcoin is as good a medium for that to take place as any, but great care would need to be taken in order not to ruin the anonymity achieved through using Tor. It would be especially tricky

Re: [tor-talk] Be anonymous without Tor

2013-10-22 Thread author
As far as I can tell, the main competitor to Tor, which is far behind in network size, is I2P. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P -Kristov On 2013-10-22 11:58, Anonymous wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! How many ways are there to be anonymous without using Tor? I think th

Re: [tor-talk] The NSA's problem? Too much data?

2013-10-20 Thread author
On 2013-10-20 13:19, Antispam 06 wrote: That's so cute! Can you point out some time a spy agency was brought in front of a judge for not respecting the law. The same law written in stone in some countries as «nobody is above the law». Do you know of a time when they were found guilty and punish

Re: [tor-talk] Tips for configuring and using Tor for anonymous Bitcoin usage?

2013-10-20 Thread author
Thanks, everyone, for the feedback. I decided to go with Tails, which is a far better choice than Ubuntu. Regards, Kristov On 2013-10-03 15:17, Luther Blissett wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 11:45 -0600, aut...@anonymousbitcoinbook.com wrote: Hey all, I'm writing a book about the use of Bitcoi

[tor-talk] Tips for configuring and using Tor for anonymous Bitcoin usage?

2013-10-03 Thread author
Hey all, I'm writing a book about the use of Bitcoin and anonymity. A fair portion of the book will be dedicated to teaching people how to most safely use Tor to facilitate anonymity with Bitcoin. Are there any special tips that people have for configuring Tor or using Tor when it comes to Bi