29 June, 2012 at 5:26 am by anonymous!
/// Meanwhile, on bitcoin-devel...
Hello everyone,
a few days ago we merged Tor hidden service support in mainline. This means that it's now possible to run a hidden service bitcoin node, and connect to other bitcoin hidden services (via a Tor proxy) when running git HEAD. See doc/Tor.txt for more information. This is expected to be included in the 0.7 release.
Additionally, such addresses are exchanged and relayed via the P2P network. To do so, we reused the fd87:d87e:eb43::/48 IPv6 range. Each address in this 80-bit range is mapped to an onion address, and treated as belonging to a separate network. This network range is the same as used by the OnionCat
application (though we do not use OnionCat in any way), and is part of
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Categories: Anonymity, Bitcoin, Internet, Software, Tor |
22 June, 2012 at 3:57 pm by anonymous!
Want to run Tor on simple hardware without leaving a trace? Tor-ramdisk is a simple software package which allows you to do it. Put it on a CD or USB-stick, boot it and now you're running Tor in a rather secure way.
Official release story as leaked on the Tor mailing list:
Hi everyone
I want to announce to the list that a new release of tor-ramdisk is out. Tor-ramdisk is an i686, x86_64 or MIPS uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes security and privacy. Security is enhanced by hardening the kernel and binaries, and privacy is enhanced by forcing logging to be off at all levels so that even the Tor operator only has
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Categories: Anonymity, Software, Tor |
14 June, 2012 at 12:16 pm by anonymous!
The latest Tor Browser Bundle is out and it uses the 10.0.5esr version of Firefox.
ESR releases are "long-term support releases". This 10.0.5 esr Firefox version is already
three versions behind the latest FF release.
This
highly controversial decision is discussed in
Tor bug #5737.
Other software in TBB 2.2.37-1 include:
- Tor 0.2.2.37
- Vidalia to 0.2.19
- Torbutton to 1.4.6
- NoScript to 2.4.4
TBB users are encouraged to update.
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Categories: Software, Tor, Tor Browser Bundle |
11 April, 2012 at 7:50 pm by anonymous!
China is currently doing a very
good job of blocking the Tor Onion Router software from working within the middle kingdom.
We previously announced that the Tor project are working on a way to strike back and make the Chinese officials loose massive amounts of face back in January. These behind the scenes efforts are bearing fruits.
Chinese officials are about to loose massive amounts of face
Our sources inside #tordev on IRC reveal that Tor developer
Sebastian Hahn is close to producing a
Tor Browser Bundle which includes the
obfsproxy software. Our sources also reveal that this version will probably not contain the included-in-every-version (except the latest)
TBB "bug"door which tracks all sites visited while supposedly browsing anonymously using Tor.
There is no exact time-frame for the release of this ...
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Categories: Face, The Middle Kingdom, Tor Browser Bundle |
11 April, 2012 at 7:29 pm by anonymous!
another fine guest post by some random pastebin-using entity on the internet(s):
This is a guide with which even a total noob can get high class security for his system and complete anonymity online. But its not only for noobs, it contains a lot of tips most people will find pretty helpfull. It is explained so detailed even the biggest noobs can do it^^ :
The Ultimate Guide for Anonymous and Secure Internet Usage v1.0.1
Table of Contents:
1. Obtaining Tor Browser
2. Using and Testing Tor Browser for the first time
3. Securing Your Hard Drive
4. Setting up TrueCrypt, Encrypted Hidden Volumes
5. Testing TrueCrypt Volumes
6. Securing your Hard Disk
7. Temporarily Securing Your Disk, Shredding Free Space
8. Installing VirtualBox
9. Installing a Firewall
10. Firewall Configuration
11. Installing Ubuntu
12. Ubuntu Initial Setup
13. Installing Guest Additions
14. Installing IRC (Optional)
15. Installing Torchat ...
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Categories: Anonymity, HOWTO, Internet, Security Links, Software, Tor |
10 April, 2012 at 9:23 am by anonymous!
Guest post from tip,
source of tip,
pastebin source: Anon exposes concerns about the security of Tor, and points us towards email exchanges concerning a Linux bug which log things like domain names to a file in the root of the browser bundle." This will effectively provide a road map of the sites the unsuspecting Tor user has visited.
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Tor Browser Bundle for Linux (2.2.35-8) "EVIL bug"
*** NEVER FORGET ***
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- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Mar/85
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522003/30/0/threaded
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"There is an EVIL bug in at least the Linux (2.2.35-8) Tor Browser Bundle start-tor-browser script. It will log things like domain names to a file in the root of the browser bundle."
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5417
Ticket #5417 (new defect)
RelativeLink.sh in Tor browser bundle has small typo causing debug mode to be always turned on:
Reported by: cypherpunks
Priority: critical
Component: Tor bundles/installation
Description
TBB starts in debug mode disregardless
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Categories: Security Links, Tor |
5 April, 2012 at 8:44 pm by anonymous!
Click the following images to enlarge and reveal the information therein.
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Categories: Location Hidden Services |
4 April, 2012 at 6:40 pm by anonymous!
Google has made it really hard to use their service lately. Alternatives like
startpage,
duckducktogo and even
Bing are becoming increasingly popular among Tor and non-Tor users due to the changes Google have made the last few months.
A new location hidden service called
GSearch Lite - Google Anonymously has appeared to make life simpler for Google-loving Tor-users. It lets you search Google without them tracking you. Check it out over at
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Categories: Search Engines, Tor |
