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Actual user demographics?
by Jivan Amara 03 May '17

03 May '17

The counter they made has a good point, that you really don't know who is using it; but to suggest that means it's entirely used by criminals is also ridiculous. What can be known is *how* TOR is being used by setting up studies at exits and seeing what kind of services people are connecting to. From that, some inference of *who* is using TOR is possible. Maybe it's the same guy buying cocaine from a black market seller that posts articles on a civil rights abuses site, but it would be silly to make that assumption. From the usage stats I've seen, the TOR website paints a prettier picture than the truth, but at the same time opponents paint a significantly darker one. On 05/03/2017 05:00 AM, tor-relays-request(a)lists.torproject.org wrote: > Good morning, > > I recently presented to a group of ten local police chiefs on the topic of Tor and its more common, though less publicized, civil usage, as opposed to the more publicized criminal usage. During my presentation I emphasized this fact, and they countered that because its usage is entirely anonymous, it is reasonable to assume that it could be used entirely by criminals and none of the oppressed as I had claimed. > > Which brings me to my question. Other than private individuals saying "Hey, I use Tor for X", how does the overall network know what the network is used for, even approximately? > > Make your day great, > Isaac Grover, Senior I.T. Consultant > Aileron I.T. - "Practical & Proactive I.T. Solutions" > > O: 715-377-0440, F:715-690-1029, W: www.aileronit.com -- Cheers, Jivan Amara --- Senior Full-Stack Developer Development(a)JivanAmara.net (619) 549-4497

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Actual user demographics?
by Isaac Grover, Aileron I.T. 02 May '17

02 May '17

Good morning, I recently presented to a group of ten local police chiefs on the topic of Tor and its more common, though less publicized, civil usage, as opposed to the more publicized criminal usage. During my presentation I emphasized this fact, and they countered that because its usage is entirely anonymous, it is reasonable to assume that it could be used entirely by criminals and none of the oppressed as I had claimed. Which brings me to my question. Other than private individuals saying "Hey, I use Tor for X", how does the overall network know what the network is used for, even approximately? Make your day great, Isaac Grover, Senior I.T. Consultant Aileron I.T. - "Practical & Proactive I.T. Solutions" O: 715-377-0440, F:715-690-1029, W: www.aileronit.com

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tornull
by Dirk 01 May '17

01 May '17

Dear all, I was made aware of the Tor Null Advisory BL [1] which is also mentioned in trac here [2]. Block Botnets does not seem like a bad idea in principal. But the page has no listing of a responsible person neither any criteria listed which it chooses to identify "bad" IPs. Looking at some of the links I found 1 which had a date from 2011 [3]. As will I miss information an when and how often it is updated. Therefore it looks slightly suspicious to me. And it surely has an abuse potential. Does anyone have more information on the background or recommendations here ? best regards Dirk [1] https://tornull.org/ [2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy [3] https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/query/SBL113323

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Fast relay dropped from use by Tor
by Sec INT 01 May '17

01 May '17

Hi This relay processed 7TB in April for Tor and processed 12 gb yesterday but today is hardly processing any data at all? Its barely doing 1000 b/sec? Its flagged as'fast, guard' etc so why is it not being used? I also checked on Atlas and this relay is not even listed anymore? Finger: B39AD54B73A70DA68F6FC26CD0A874DE762B7825 Is this BW auth issue? Oh and I checked the available bandwidth its 100mb/s up and down Snap

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Is there any problems for users of my exit node if I have DNS lookups go out on a different interface?
by Anders Andersson 01 May '17

01 May '17

I plan to set up a Tor exit node (again), and the server has two external interfaces each with a dedicated IP. I'm going to use one of these exclusively for Tor. I also run a validating Unbound on the same machine, and all DNS lookups that are not cached will go out on the *other* interface by default. internet <--> IP 1 <--> unbound internet <--> IP 2 <--> tor, talking locally to unbound IP 1 and 2 should have the same routing path otherwise, because it's on the same network. I can't imagine how this could be problematic, but there has been so much talk about DNS lookups over the years, so I thought I'd better check with people who know more about this.

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by Alex 29 Apr '17

29 Apr '17

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Law Enforcement Request
by teor 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Hi all, Last week, we were contacted by Australian law enforcement, on behalf of German law enforcement, about one of our relays. It appears that some law enforcement agency had performed a guard discovery attack on a hidden service. One of our relays was that hidden service's guard. They requested that we provide a detailed network capture of that guard's traffic. We refused. (We do not keep detailed logs.) We also shut down the guard. T -- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n xmpp: teor at torproject dot org ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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bind DNS Crash on Exit
by teor 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

Hi all, Are you using bind as a local caching resolver on your exits? The DNS resolver on our exit crashed over the weekend due to this bug: https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01466 It hasn't been patched yet in Debian: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-3137 So I have added a file: /etc/systemd/system/bind9.service.d/restart-on-abort.conf With the text: [Service] Restart=on-abort This should work for any systemd/bind9 Linux system. T -- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n xmpp: teor at torproject dot org ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [tor-relays] [tor-talk] TOR problems - seriously PLEASE HELP ME!
by Jonathan Marquardt 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 12:16:23PM +0200, unpublished wrote: > 1. Many web pages display information that I do not support "TOR > connections"? Not sure, what you mean here. Perhaps THEY don't support (i.e. block) connections from Tor users, because they are afraid of spam or other stupid reasons. Nothing you can really do here. Websites blocking Tor is a huge problem. > 2. How to increase (amazon) the number of relay nodes? Because standard > only two redirect point? There are always three nodes. The amazon node should be your guard relay (where you enter the Tor network). Then there are two relays after that. There isn't really any way to change that. Three hops should be sufficient for decent anonymity, no real need to worry here. > 3. How to change the end node of the country (eg country from which I am > POLAND)? Here's a simple guide on how to do that: http://www.wikihow.com/Set-a-Specific-Country-in-a-Tor-Browser -- 4096R/1224DBD299A4F5F3 47BC 7DE8 3D46 2E8B ED18 AA86 1224 DBD2 99A4 F5F3

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Relay traffic went to ~zero
by Jan Jancar 21 Apr '17

21 Apr '17

Hi all, I have been running my relay for about a year now and about two weeks ago my relay traffic went close to zero [1]. Any ideas as to why? Is it my ISP silently throttling my ORport after founding out I run a relay? Is it some misconfiguration on my part? My consensus weight went down from ~400 to 10, over the last few days. [1]: http://imgur.com/YOMxU66 [2]: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/1673C036756D2800D2BD0F7C20DEE3FB934F9… [3]: http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=1673c036756d2800d2bd0f7c… Cheers, -- Jan ______________________________________________________ /\ # PGP: 362056ADA8F2F4E421565EF87F4A448FE68F329D /__\ # https://neuromancer.sk /\ /\ # Eastern Seaboard Phishing Authority /__\/__\ #

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