Re: [tor-talk] tor virus

2012-08-15 Thread Anthony Papillion
rom Tor at all costs. Anthony > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:36:03 +0200 > From: ethio...@gmail.com > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: [tor-talk] tor virus > > I am from Ethiopia. The problem faced by descendants in Ethiopia is many > fold. 90 million people, a bruta

Re: [tor-talk] Tor virus

2012-08-15 Thread Katya Titov
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:43:27 +0200 Philipp Winter: > ethio tor wrote: >> What if there is a tor "virus" (pardon for the choice of word) that >> can infect such pc and make a relay, bridge, or what ever on the >> background undetected. > > Sounds like a "human rights worm". Some people thought abou

Re: [tor-talk] Tor virus

2012-08-14 Thread Philipp Winter
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:31:40PM +0200, ethio tor wrote: > What if there is a tor "virus" (pardon for the choice of word) that can > infect such pc and make a relay, bridge, or what ever on the background > undetected. Sounds like a "human rights worm". Some people thought about that before [1].

Re: [tor-talk] Tor virus

2012-08-14 Thread Philipp Winter
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:29:05AM +0200, HardKor wrote: > Is it possible to connect to Tor from Ethiopia ? Is there any blocking > strategy ? The standard TBB does not work because Ethiopia is currently fingerprinting and dropping both, the TLS client and server hello. More details are available

Re: [tor-talk] Tor virus

2012-08-13 Thread HardKor
You could start spreading tools like Tails that allow people to communicate safely in a hostile environment. https://tails.boum.org/ Tails can auto-replicate himself. Is it possible to connect to Tor from Ethiopia ? Is there any blocking strategy ? HardKor On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Juli

Re: [tor-talk] Tor virus

2012-08-13 Thread Julian Wissmann
The Basic Problem, that I see here, is that, if they have surveillance covering everything, they will probably also have access to and monitor whats going on on these PCs, locally. So putting Tor on these is not going to help. To the contrary, it might make things even worse for people using a t

[tor-talk] tor virus

2012-08-13 Thread ethio tor
I am from Ethiopia. The problem faced by descendants in Ethiopia is many fold. 90 million people, a brutal repressive government by any standard, a single government owned ISP that has more government spies than actual telecommunication workers, a very poor and limited mobile and data infrastruct

[tor-talk] Tor virus

2012-08-13 Thread ethio tor
I am from Ethiopia. The problem faced by descendants in Ethiopia is many fold. 90 million people, a brutal repressive government by any standard, a single government owned ISP that has more government spies than actual telecommunication workers, a very poor and limited mobile and data infrastruct