Notices tagged with tor
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Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Oct-2018 05:01:40 CEST 
Mike Gerwitz
It drives me crazy when sites block access via #Tor to read-only resources (like articles)---it doesn't make much sense to me. It's probably a quick decision by a team of people that don't really care or think about it, but it has strong effects that in the best case discourage use of an important privacy/anonymity tool, and in the worst case outright prevent certain users from accessing those resources (if Tor is their only option).
A common workaround I use is to prepend "https://web.archive.org/" to the URL to load it in the #WaybackMachine from the Internet Archive. Sometimes websites block even that.
The Internet Archive does great, important work, btw. Here's a recent article that emphasizes some of the major problems they're solving:
https://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-broken-links-on-wikipedia-are-now-rescued/ -
Anonymiss (anonymiss)'s status on Friday, 17-Aug-2018 23:25:52 CEST 
Anonymiss
#Tor Friends and Relay Operators Meetup: #Berlin
https://is.gd/R7Ht7n
#Zwiebelfreunde #meeting #onion #privacy #security #internet #freedom -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 04:10:58 CEST
Mike Gerwitz
This article is popular right now on HN:
https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/
It's something that many of us have been saying for many years. But I've been largely insulated from it: I have blocked all scripts and ads (for privacy and security reasons, but also because most sites serve proprietary JavaScript code) for years. If it weren't for my research (https://mikegerwitz.com/talks), I wouldn't have realized just how bad it has become.
I've also run all my browsing through #Tor for years. And what this article reminds me of (but does not mention; this is unrelated) is how Tor used to be so painfully slow---worse than dialup. It has improved drastically over the years, but by design, it's always going to be slower than directly connecting to a webserver.
But despite that, websites often finish loading for me much faster than those who use the "normal" web over a normal connection, because it's not loading so much shit. That also allows me to stick to <256MiB of data per month on my mobile plan, despite browsing sites linked to on HN and despite the extra packets from Tor itself. (Btw, text.npr.org is great, for those who didn't know of it.)
The very things that got me downvoted into oblivion on HN years ago are now the popular, obvious things. Why do things have to get so _bad_ before most people begin to care? -
utzer (utzer)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2018 23:46:33 CET 
utzer
Can anyone tell me where #Orbot stores the keys and hidden service files?
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utzer (utzer)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2018 01:46:16 CET
utzer
I am not #newhere, but I never did a #neuhier (German for new here) post in the beginning. I love the #Fediverse and run my own small #Friendica server for some time now.
Hope to find some more people interested in #RaspberryPi #Linux #FLOSS #Hacking #34C3 #Tor #powerconverter #eff #sfc #ubuntu. -
nusenu (nusenu)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2018 09:36:43 CET
nusenu
This is an important new #Tor feature for relays and the entire network: The new denial of service mitigation got merged into the MASTER branch.
If you can't wait for the next alpha release to try it out, you might be able to use provided nightly builds if you use a debian-based OS.
https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/
#privacy infrastructure
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utzer (utzer)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2018 21:20:44 CET
utzer
Mein #Tor Relay macht jetzt dauerhaft etwa 1MB/s zuhause am VDSL, dass sind etwa 65GB/tag, die Fritzbox mag das nicht so sehr, alle 20-30 Tage bekommt die DSL Sync Probleme. Gibt es bessere VDSL2 Geräte ihr empfehlen könnt? -
CogLib (timleary)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 16:22:43 CET
CogLib
@digital @kzimmermann For !privacy also consider ungoogled-chromium in a #firejail w/ #tor net namespace & the plugin that flags CloudFlare. -
CogLib (timleary)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 16:16:38 CET
CogLib
@kzimmermann IMO a good browser for !privacy is ungoogled-chromium in a #firejail w/ #tor net namespace & the plugin that flags CloudFlare. -
CogLib (timleary)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2017 12:00:02 CET
CogLib
@hypolite @pafzedog @se7h I find #hooktube bad for !privacy as it uses CloudFlare, which blocks #tor & sees all traffic.
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qbi (qbi)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 22:05:26 CET 
qbi
Liebe Deutsche, warum nutzt ihr gerade jetzt #Tor?
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?country=de
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Holger (holger)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2017 15:43:43 CET
Holger
Firefox und Tor Browser: Aktuelle Versionen schließen mehrere Sicherheitslücken https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Firefox-und-Tor-Browser-Aktuelle-Versionen-schliessen-mehrere-Sicherheitsluecken-3890721.html ( #Webbrowser #Firefox #Tor ) -
utzer (utzer)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2017 02:01:32 CET
utzer
Anyone thinking an assembly for #Tor on the #34C3 is a good idea? I did enter one in the #CCC wiki, but only entered a size of 12 people. Who would like to be part of that assembly?
It could be an information point for #Tor relay operators, programmers of tools related to #Tor and interested users. Please let me know if you'd like to spend some time with us at #CCC, I will increase the number of participants if I get feedback. -
metrics-bot (metricsbot)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2017 08:10:01 CET
metrics-bot
4 relays in Google Inc. (AS15169) are contributing 30.2MiB/s bandwidth to the #Tor network. https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/as:15169
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Holger (holger)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2017 00:07:27 CET
Holger
Critical Tor flaw leaks users’ real IP address—update now
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/critical-tor-flaw-leaks-users-real-ip-address-update-now/ #surveillance #privacy #anonymity #torMac and Linux versions of the Tor anonymity browser just received a temporary fix for a critical vulnerability that leaks users' IP addresses when they visit certain types of addresses. -
metrics-bot (metricsbot)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2017 22:46:51 CET
metrics-bot
8 relays in Iran are contributing 2.3MiB/s bandwidth to the #Tor network. https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/country:ir
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vinzv (vinzv)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2017 13:36:27 CEST
vinzv
The New York Times is now available as a #Tor Onion service: https://gnusocial.de/url/4447469 -
Tor Project (torproject)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2017 23:34:07 CEST
Tor Project
TorBirdy 0.2.2 is released #torproject #tor #security https://blog.torproject.org/torbirdy-022-released -
nusenu (nusenu)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2017 02:10:41 CEST
nusenu
someone is flooding the #tornetwork with 18k Machiavelli obfs4 #tor #bridges starting at 2017-09-02 18:43:33 (>4k of them are running, that is 64% of bridges) https://mastodon.social/media/Lv_sY5eIUlO-qLKFkmo
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qbi (qbi)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2017 17:25:00 CEST
qbi
"One week with #Tor"
Interesting report from someone who spent a whole week connecting only through Tor.
http://qttr.at/1xp9
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