Re: [tor-talk] Use of TOR for illegal activities

2015-05-19 Thread n...@cock.li
Paul A. Crable: > Is there some way to keep TOR out of the hands of sleazebags and > crooks? No. The entire point is that no one is censored. To allow some form of censorship would only put pressure to allow even more censorship with time, and trust and anonyminity would be broken. As can be see

Re: [tor-talk] Matryoshka: Are TOR holes intentional?

2015-06-20 Thread n...@cock.li
grarpamp: > http://shofarnexus.com/Blog-2015-01-13 Under "The hole in TOR": > If you see a 456 byte message sent from computer A and a moment later > the same or similar size message arrive at computer B you could draw > an obvious conclusion. But, Tor cells are a fixed-size of 512 bytes: https:/

Re: [tor-talk] pdf with tor

2015-07-03 Thread n...@cock.li
mtsio: > If you to Preferences->Applications->Portable Document Format there > is the option 'Preview in Tor Browser' that opens the PDF without > opening an external application. What's the problem with that? Well, Mozilla announced a secadv for pdf.js recently, so there's that. https://www.mozi

Re: [tor-talk] A curious email from Twitter mentioning Tor Project

2015-12-23 Thread n...@cock.li
Akater: > Note: I'm using Tor for Twitter for some time I have been as well, and I've also received that notice from twitter. I don't think I'm a particularly suspicious or special person to any government, should we pass this off as a false alarm triggered by using tor to twitter, or is there a r

Re: [tor-talk] Metrics shows drop of users

2016-01-03 Thread n...@cock.li
tor-ad...@torland.me: > Metrics portal shows a drop of around half million direct connecting users: > > https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html > > Does someone has a good explanation what happened? The top 5 countries show > the same drop. Is this another botnet that got kno

Re: [tor-talk] How to protect apache local-restricted from secret service access?

2016-01-31 Thread n...@cock.li
This is/was also being discussed at https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-onions/2016-January/26.html Suggestions so far are "a2dismod status" as you said, or as a more general solution, binding the onion service to an address other than 127.0.0.1. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lis

Re: [tor-talk] Can we have less of Jacob Appelbaum here, please?

2016-06-11 Thread n...@cock.li
Mirimir: > I'd say that conspiracies among Tor Project employees and volunteers > to force out and humiliate a key employee would be a serious matter, > with obvious impact on Tor development. So it's not just Jacob's > behavior that must be reviewed. It's also the behavior of the lynch > mob. And