[tor-talk] draft letter for financial institutions or other third parties who often block Tor

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've spoken today with someone who had to back off in running a relay from home because his IP address was blocked from accessing a financial institution website. Quite uncomfortable. I have made a simple non-technical draft letter to educate the

Re: [tor-talk] Norse Darklist, for blocking Tor

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/11/2014 1:46 AM, Michael Wolf wrote: > On 6/10/2014 6:17 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> " http://www.norse-corp.com/darklist.html >> >> The world's first comprehensive blacklist of the Internet's >> highest risk IPs. > > "Why secure your server when

Re: [tor-talk] US ip address

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 4/23/2014 5:58 PM, Ted Jackson wrote: > I would like to change to an US Ip address when I want to? > possible? > You can set a static exit node in your torrc but that is not recommended at all as it will have impact on your anonymity. Always r

[tor-talk] bleeding relays rejected, what about bleeding bridge-relays?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Reading the dev list yesterday I saw that a scan was performed on all the relays in the Tor network and the ones vulnerable to OpenSSL heartbleed had their fingerprints listed with a !reject argument by the directory authorities. So far so good

[tor-talk] IMPORTANT: Heartbleed vulnerability impact on Hidden Service experiment

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, After seeing the challenge done by CloudFlare, to setup a server open to the internet with that vulnerable OpenSSL version so everyone could try and get its private keys (to see if it's actually possible), after speaking earlier with people in #

[tor-talk] strange behavior of Tor Browser on Windows 8.1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I have upgraded to latest Tor Browser Bundle version: 3.5.4 - Windows 32 bit. My operating system is Windows 8.1 Pro Enterprise, 64 bit. The odd things i have noticed (which didn't happen in previous versions) are: 1. Some kind of cookie / se

[tor-talk] MaxMemInCellQueues questions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Onions, Reading the blog post with the DDoS possible attack to terminate relays by making RAM memory scarce, I would like to ask the following: In Tor versions > 2.4 a defense against these types of attacks was deployed (MaxMemInCellQueues). MaxMe

[tor-talk] how relays upgrade to latest version of Tor

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When a new version of Tor is released, one which makes significant changes to routing rules, covers security vulnerabilities, etc. - how do all the ~6000 relays upgrade to the latest version automatically and simultaneously so the peers in the net