Posted in Anonymity Essentials, Surveillance, Tor on Apr 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
The paranoid answer: once. I’ve written about how you can make your own Tor-on-a-USB stick package by pieceing together the parts you need (Tor, Privoxy and a browser like Opera). But a minor detail didn’t even cross my mind until I read a short post about security at polysyncronism.com about the issue of can you [...]
Posted in Internet, Tor on Mar 29th, 2007 No Comments »
PSI is a very popular Jabber-client which supposedly supports SOCKS-compatible proxies in the upcoming version. This support is, sadly, utterly broken from a security point of view.
What’s Jabber, anyway?
Jabber is a protocol for user-to-user messages which to the end-user works just like MSN, ICQ and similar systems. The difference is that Jabber is a open [...]
Posted in Tor on Mar 15th, 2007 5 Comments »
There is a nice bundle of the Tor network security tool, Privox and the Opera browser available called OperaTor. It includes a non-open-source .exe file, which is my eyes makes it not worth trusting, but you don’t need to: There’s also a Build-Your-Own version available which let’s you make your own custom “OperaTor” variant.
You can [...]
Posted in Anonymity Essentials, Internet, Surveillance, Tor on Mar 10th, 2007 4 Comments »
Articles with headlines such as “Here is how to expose Tor-users” appear regularly in the mainstream press. Most of these articles have nothing to do with Tor itself and everything to do with users who by mistake allow their software to send personal information over the anonymous connection or allow their software to connect to [...]
Posted in Internet, Surveillance, Tor on Mar 7th, 2007 8 Comments »
A paper technical paper released in February by UColorado/Boulder outlines how to attack Tor using a few evil servers. A spokesperson for the Tor-project was quick to respond, saying that they are aware of the problem and that nothing indicates that such an attack has been launched “in the wild” yet.Yesterday “respectable” publication ZDNet repored [...]
Posted in Censorship, Internet on Mar 2nd, 2007 11 Comments »
DNS censorship is a form of sensorship where DNS servers are (mis)configured to give the wrong answer to given domains. You want to go to a website, the name (www.something.tld) is translated by your ISP’s DNS servers into a IP, and your browser goes to that IP. But DNS servers do not need to tell [...]
Posted in Internet, Surveillance, Tor on Feb 5th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve used quite some time to read the legal documents and other documents regarding the EFF v. AT&T lawsuit. The suit is a EFF class-action suit against the AT&T because AT&T are helping the NSA spy on US citizens by giving them access to the Internet backbone at various central points.
Now, the interesting thing isn’t [...]
Posted in Anonymity Essentials, Internet, Search Engines, Tor on Jan 16th, 2007 22 Comments »
Many people, including my self, search using the Google scraper Scroogle to get search-results from Google and Yahoo without letting them know that it is actually me who is doing the search-request. You type your keywords into Scroogle, it passes them on to Google or Yahoo, fetches the results, and presents it in a beautifully [...]
Posted in Anonymity Essentials, Internet, Tor on Jan 12th, 2007 No Comments »
The Internet is a place where you can be anonymous, but are not by default. Everything you do on the Internet can be watched - at least by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). But there is a quick and easy way to make sure it is impossible for anyone to monitor what you do on [...]
