Posted in Surveillance, Tor on Aug 1st, 2007 3 Comments »
Tor v0.2.0.3-alpha has a new killer feature against blocking which may prove to be extremely cool. It allows you to run as a bridge which can be used by other people who want to connect to the Tor-network.
Those who configure their Tor-clients as Bridges pass traffic between end-users and the Tor-network.
People who can’t get to [...]
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 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 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 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 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 6 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 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 [...]
