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Re: [tor-relays] [tor-talk] Tor diversity (was: Explain yourself Conrad Rockenhaus)
by René Ladan 02 May '19

02 May '19

Op do 2 mei 2019 09:43 schreef Tor Revolution < isupportthenewrevolution(a)protonmail.com>: > You are probably trying to push hacked FreeBSD or that hacked HardenedBSD > stuff that no one cares about anyway. If people cared about more FreeBSD on > Tor they would do it but obviously it's not a big issue!!! > Ignoring half-baked accusations against Conrad for now. Having relays running something else than Ubuntu *is* an important issue. This does not have to be FreeBSD/HardenedBSD, it can also be OpenBSD/NetBSD, MacOS, or even Windows. The point is that if someone (say the NSA) discovers a bug in Ubuntu which they can use to take over relays, and 95% (or so) of the relays run Ubuntu, then they can take over Tor. If a significant part of the relays run something else, then those relays are safe for the exploit and consequently becomes harder for the NSA to take over Tor. As for why 95% of the relays runs on Ubuntu, I guess it is legacy. At least https://support.torproject.org/#operators advertises multiple operating systems. See also https://torbsd.github.io/ René (running "ymkeo" on FreeBSD for almost 5 years now)

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Re: [tor-relays] [tor-talk] Explain yourself Conrad Rockenhaus
by Tor Revolution 02 May '19

02 May '19

> This is another reminder to please keep posts on-topic and civil. > > This is not the place for personal attacks. > The sooner that the Tor community is rid of this filth known as "Conrad Rockenhaus" the sooner people will stop talking about him. Why are you defending him? > > > On 2 May 2019, at 09:43, Tor Revolution isupportthenewrevolution(a)protonmail.com wrote: > > Per your LinkedIn: > > You worked at the National Reconnaissance Office of the United States which is the most secretive branch of the United States Intelligence Community > > You worked at the Naval Security Group Activity which is the United States Navy's version of the National Security Agency > > You have a Security Clearance but you don't specify what type but I wonder why someone with a SECURITY CLEARANCE would want to work with Tor > > Teor called you out months ago as a US Government Spy and I'm glad that the Tor Community Council is calling you out with. People can post all of the advertising in the world but as long as you're called out Mr US Federal Government Spy then they're doing the right thing. You are probably trying to push hacked FreeBSD or that hacked HardenedBSD stuff that no one cares about anyway. If people cared about more FreeBSD on Tor they would do it but obviously it's not a big issue!!! It's not a big issue to spin up our Hetzner exits at least we know that a spy not you isnt doing it!!! > > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > > > ----------------------------------- > > > > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org > > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > > -- > > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

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Explain yourself Conrad Rockenhaus
by Tor Revolution 02 May '19

02 May '19

Per your LinkedIn: You worked at the National Reconnaissance Office of the United States which is the most secretive branch of the United States Intelligence Community You worked at the Naval Security Group Activity which is the United States Navy's version of the National Security Agency You have a Security Clearance but you don't specify what type but I wonder why someone with a SECURITY CLEARANCE would want to work with Tor Teor called you out months ago as a US Government Spy and I'm glad that the Tor Community Council is calling you out with. People can post all of the advertising in the world but as long as you're called out Mr US Federal Government Spy then they're doing the right thing. You are probably trying to push hacked FreeBSD or that hacked HardenedBSD stuff that no one cares about anyway. If people cared about more FreeBSD on Tor they would do it but obviously it's not a big issue!!! It's not a big issue to spin up our Hetzner exits at least we know that a spy not you isnt doing it!!! Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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SENDME CELL
by marziyeh latifi 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Hello, I have two questions about SENDME cell in TOR: Is SENDME a Control cell or a Relay cell? Which node does interpret SENDME cells?The node that receives them or the edge node(client/exit)? thanks

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Re: [tor-relays] Well, what exactly are you trying to contribute with your efforts?
by Conrad Rockenhaus 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 5:49 PM Seby <seby2kt14(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Here we go again... > This dude just won't stop harassing us with masked advertising, commercial > offers and monetary asks. Every time even the most boring thing needs to be > publicly shouted on these mail lists, every time he does something > extraordinary, something quite unusual that none of you mortals could ever > do like running a middle relay on a small virtual machine, or a 500KB/s > bridge. > Actually, it's not masked advertising for commercial offers. It's nonprofit solicitation to assist other users that are interested in expanding Tor's FreeBSD Resiliency. There's quite a few people that would like to help but aren't comfortable making the plunge on their own. Increasing the number of FreeBSD machines ensures we don't have a single point of failure as the number of Linux machines presently on Tor greatly outweighs the number of FreeBSD machines on Tor. This was previously discussed, but I'm sure you weren't paying attention, but that's where the project started from and it was always a nonprofit project to begin with. In addition, we're now assisting with AS divestment as well, to try to get people off of highly populated ASes so those don't form single points of failure. Which is another goal of the Project, from what I have been told. I understand you may not get that, so I'll explain it as simply as possible - too many middle relays and exits are getting service from the same service providers. We are trying to help provide another Tor friendly service provider to the table (which runs separately from this since that's a commercial operation). When we had are stuff fully online, we occupied all 15 top spots of the highest bandwidth exits in Canada. Right now my highest performing exit in the US is in the Top 10 but I've been scaling that exit down as I'm not sure if I'm keeping my personal items online anymore at this point. Finally, the GreyPony project has been there to make it be able for an enduser be able to easily setup and get going on their first new relay with dedicated support, sometimes people want that extra hand. Before you trash a project before you should learn about it, but all you've been doing is trashing things. Maybe you should try contributing to something and ignoring things you disagree with or asking questions if you don't understand it, instead of just resorting to talking trash about a project. I just makes it look like you have plenty of free time to mock others because you aren't helping others, but that's my take on things. -- Conrad Rockenhaus https://www.rockenhaus.com Cell: (254) 292-3350 Fax: (254) 875-0459

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Reddit is starting to block my relays ...
by abuse net 28 Apr '19

28 Apr '19

https://i.imgur.com/nF3FR0V.png <https://i.imgur.com/nF3FR0V.png> WTF?

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Tor Meetup in Hamburg, April 26th
by Alexander Dietrich 28 Apr '19

28 Apr '19

English: We would like to invite people interested in the Tor project and relay operators in the Hamburg area to meet at University of Hamburg, Department of Computer Science. There will be an introduction to Tor, a Q&A session and a brief announcement about a newly founded Hamburg-based Tor association. We would love for relay operators to meet and discuss ways of strengthening the network. Be seeing you! When: Friday, April 26th, 7:00 PM Where: Informatikum, Building F, Room F-027 University of Hamburg, Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30, 22527 Hamburg Public Transportation: https://www.hvv.de/(Destination: Informatikum) Deutsch: Wir möchten am Tor-Projekt interessierte Menschen und Relay-Betreiber aus Hamburg und Umgebung einladen, sich am Informatikum der Universität Hamburg zu treffen. Es wird eine Tor-Einführung, eine Frage-Antwort-Runde und eine kurze Ankündigung eines neugegründeten Hamburger Tor-Vereins geben. Wir würden uns freuen, wenn sich Relay-Betreiber treffen und Wege diskutieren, das Netzwerk zu stärken. Wir sehen uns! Wann: Freitag, 26. April 2019, 19:00 Uhr Wo: Informatikum, Gebäude F, Raum F-027 Universität Hamburg, Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30, 22527 Hamburg ÖPNV: https://www.hvv.de/(Ziel: Informatikum) Kind regards, Alexander -- PGP Key: https://dietrich.cx/pgp | 0x52FA4EE1722D54EB

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relay unresponsive - relay resumed - stable-flag
by digitalist00 27 Apr '19

27 Apr '19

Hello! Maybe this is the cause why I've lost my stable-flag. Does anybody know how to fix this. The relay runs on a Raspberry. Need any further information? Yours digitalist [Unbenannt.JPG] Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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firewall ports needed to run a middle relay
by torix＠protonmail.com 26 Apr '19

26 Apr '19

I need to move to a new router, which, unlike the old Verizon home router, doesn't have a quick DMZ host to which I attach the tor telay's local ip address. So I think I need to do port forwarding, and for that what rules do I need? My torrc config has: ControlPort 9052 ORPort 8443 DirPort 8080 So I forwarded 8443 and just in case, 8080. But the number of my connexions kept dropping, so I put it back in the DMZ and it started getting new ones again. Trying to figure out if I screwed up the config gui, or if I need to add other ports. Did I miss a port? TIA, --Torix Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Re: [tor-relays] Research on the live Tor Network and the Tor Research Safety Board
by nusenu 25 Apr '19

25 Apr '19

FYI nusenu wrote (2019-04-20): > Hi there, > > we noticed your tor relays and were wondering whether you > submitted your research to the Tor Research Safety Board > for review since your email address and amount of relays suggests > you are doing research. > > https://research.torproject.org/safetyboard.html > > https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetRadar/2019/04/17/a3 > > kind regards, > nusenu > > -- https://twitter.com/nusenu_ https://mastodon.social/@nusenu

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