For those using Tor with windows

Wilson cwilson352 at cogeco.ca
Wed Nov 16 06:09:57 UTC 2005


Nick Mathewson wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:10:12AM -0500, Wilson wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi, I'm new here but anyhow... I have developed a program called 
>>Nodeblock to block Tor routers outside any
>>country or countries you  specify.... im looking for people to test it, 
>>i have an ftp setup so you can
>>access it and download the nodeblockv11.rar and the install text 
>>file..... make sure you read
>>the text file first before installation and set it up accordingly, or 
>>nodeblock will not work.
>>    
>>
>
>Hi, and thanks for writing this program.  A few questions and
>concerns:
>
>  1. Do you plan on releasing the source code?  Nobody should trust a
>     security application if it can't be built from source.
>
>  2. Why so large?  The nodeblockv11.rar file is over 3 MB in size; by
>     way of comparison, the windows Tor installer itself is only 968K.
>
>  3. It looks like you're distributing wget in binary form without
>     including the source or the offer you received to get the source;
>     unless I'm missing something, this is in violation of clause 3 of
>     the GPL.
>
>thanks again,
>  
>

Hi Nick, I was unaware of the violation of clause 3 of the GPL.

The rar is very big because of DLL files needed to run certain programs 
in nodeblock...

I will put the source code on the ftp....Done

well, the wget source code is bundled with the nodeblock program....






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