Tor network doubles in size every 2-2.5 years Tor's total network bandwidth doubles at a darn impressive 13-14 months! Moore's Law, doubling every 18 months, is downright torpid by comparison. relays’ mean bandwidth doubles about every two years.
Hotblack Desiato wrote: » User error is the weak point of everything.
Recondite49 wrote: » You said it chief, we all remember how Dread Pirate Roberts was nabbed ; used a US based VPN who were promptly subpoenaed - honestly who is that stupid?!
Rucking_Fetard wrote: » Hmm, I don't think it was ever that Recon, for the last few months the Authoritys have been saying it was a badly configured CAPTCHA set up by Dread himself that leaked Silk Roads IP address, but the latest is that's bull.http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/the-he-said-she-said-of-how-the-fbi-found-silk-roads-servers/ So it's back to an unknown at the minute.
Rucking_Fetard wrote: » With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online
Rucking_Fetard wrote: » Tor Browser 4.0 is released
RainyDay wrote: » Would you care to give a dummies guide to the TOR browser? Does it really help for the average browser to keep everything out of reach? Does the blocking of Flash and RealPlayer block much useful interaction?
Kinet1c wrote: » I used it for the first time today, seems pretty clever in terms of masking your IP. Go to google.ie on your existing browser and type "my ip" and it'll show your IP from your home. Do the same within your tor browser and you'll see that it's completely different. Even the automatically added plugins like noscript and httpseverywhere would be useful outside of a tor browser. The video linked to earlier in the thread is about an hour long but inside the first few minutes tor is explained and should clear up any questions you have about it.
Hotblack Desiato wrote: » 'Downloading Binaries From Random Unsecured Websites Still A Bad Idea'
RainyDay wrote: » Thanks, I watched the video. It explained what's going on under the hood, but didn't tell me much about the end user experience. I used SRWARE Iron browser in the past, having got recommendations about security, but found just too many glitches with fairly common sites for it to be usable. I'd love to hear other's experiences, about how it works for day to day browsing.
bedlam wrote: » You can thank Cloudflare for this, it's a pain in the ass but they claim to be actively trying to find a balance so Tor users are not constantly bombarded by these captchas. Yes, access is blocked Yes*, have a read of part one of this blog post * as long at the connection to the site is over https.
RainyDay wrote: » So, experiences so far; Facebook works OK, though a bit sluggish in displaying photos. I get warning messages flagging up that I'm logging in from Berlin. Only problem is the links in alert emails still link to the non-TOR version, so I have to click into the old version if I use the email. FB videos don't work, presumably because they require Flash. Donedeal doesn't work, for what they say is fraud prevention reasons. Mightytext.net doesn't work. Boards.ie doesn't work. Politics.ie works, with the cloudfare captcha challenge first. Tumblr works OK. YouTube works OK. I'm not convinced so far. It looks like I won't be able to use it as my default browser, so I'm not sure I'm motivated to have two browsers running all the time.
obsidianclock wrote: » Hi Rainyday, Have you tried to create a new Facebook account just over Tor yet? I'd like to see if it's possible to do one from scratch with an assumed name - of course technically we can't ever be anonymous on Facebook as you have to provide your real name!
Kinet1c wrote: » Boards doesn't allow tor traffic for whatever reason.
RainyDay wrote: » Nope, haven't tried that. I was a bit surprised to find that Facebook don't seem to have joined the dots. While using the TOR version, I get warnings in the TOR version that I'm logging in from somewhere unusual, like Croatia. Wouldn't you think that they'd realise that if I'm using the TOR version, of course my logins are going to come from unusual locations.
_Jumper_ wrote: » And they even have an onion address.http://www.darknet.org.uk/2014/11/facebook-allows-tor-access-site/https://facebookcorewwwi.onion
RainyDay wrote: » Yep, it was the FB onion address I was using, which is why I was surprised to get warnings about logins from distant locations. And when I click the warning notification in the FB app on my phone, I get an Internet 'address not found' for an FB onion URL.
RainyDay wrote: » Nope, haven't tried that. I was a bit surprised to find that Facebook don't seem to have joined the dots. While using the TOR version, I get warnings in the TOR version that I'm logging in from somewhere unusual, like Croatia. Wouldn't you think that they'd realise that if I'm using the TOR version, of course my logins are going to come from unusual locations. And one more site for the blacklist of sites who blacklist TOR - thejournal.ie - why on earth would they be sensitive to login locations?
