Posted in Anonymity Essentials, Censorship, Live CDs, Surveillance on Jul 15th, 2007 2 Comments »
Benjamin Schieder as announced that he will no longer develop the ROCKate LiveCD after German laws reciently became even more fascist than they were during World War II. ROCKate is a Linux LiveCD which includes anonymity software such as Tor. It is clear that the tyrannical German government does not want you or your loved [...]
Posted in Tor, Traffic analysis on Jul 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Someone posted a comment saying that it is hard to get a valid copy of a new version of Tor. It’s real easy if you already have a working version of Tor: Go to https://tor.eff.org/download.html.en and download a new copy using Tor. The website is https, the certificate has fingerprint 00:FE:80:50:1A:33:90:B4:97:DE:D7:FF:4D:31:D8:30:7B (issued to *.eff.org) and [...]
Posted in Internet, Surveillance, Tor, Traffic analysis on Jul 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Random open WIFI networks and pay pr use public WIFIs at cafés and such are great if you have a laptop computer. But can you trust them? Are they perhaps subject to surveillance? How do you know if an adversary or anyone else for that matter are watching your traffic?
Encrypt pass your local adversary
The Google [...]
Posted in Live CDs, Tor on Jun 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
Incognito is yet another Linux Live-CD for network anonymity when you are on the movie. It’s based on Gentoo Linux and boots into a complete Linux system where all the network traffic goes through the Tor onion router.
The CD comes in a “small” version with Firefox, Fluxbox as as window manager and Tor/Privoxy and a [...]
Posted in Search Engines, Tor on Jun 7th, 2007 11 Comments »
The long-established location hidden Tor-service The Hidden Wiki (http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/) is now gone and now only shows the following message:
“The hidden wiki is gone. If you set up a new one and post the link to the or-talk list I’ll link it from here. 06/07/07.”
There are several location hidden wiki’s. The one knows as [...]
Posted in Internet, Surveillance, Tor on May 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Big Brother, in various shapes and forms, is watching you, including what you do on the Internet. Encryption is a good tool for combating surveillance, but i’s not enough: The adversary can still see who you are communicating with even though the communications itself is encrypted. This is why resistance against traffic analysis is important. [...]
Posted in Tor on May 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
Tor is a Internet security tool which provides properties such as traffic analysis communications and anonymity. It can be used to browse and participate on the Internet without fear of covert government torture in tyrannical pretend-to-be-democracy NATO-regimes such as Norway. A new version of the “stable” branch is now available.
The new version has some software [...]
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 [...]
