[tor-talk] Two Degrees of Removal

[Iamnotanumber]

I find that with Tor Browser 8, I can no longer use the method I've run for years. I have Tor from the TBB running in a KVM virtual machine dedicated to that. Then from other machines I set up reverse SSH tunnels to the Tor server, and set the SOCKS proxy in Firefox to one of the 15 ports I have set up with TBB.

Please no lectures. I am fully aware of what can come through to my browser. I'm more concerned about the Tor server being compromised, in which case they'd be tied up in the virtual machine.

But with version 8 of TBB with every SSL site I get,
"Secure Connection Failed
"The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading."

Apparently this is due to the tighter configs in the TBB.

I've tried installing Tails in the VM, but always have trouble booting a VM to a DVD image. I'd like to run Tails from a chattr +i .iso DVD device, or maybe a USB device, but it doesn't work with a KVM VM, and I can't get in to Tails' XMPP support as I haven't had time to set up and learn it.

Input is welcomed on the best direction to go from here.

[Iamnotanumber]

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

I find that with Tor Browser 8, I can no longer use the method I've run for years. I have Tor from the TBB running in a KVM virtual machine dedicated to that. Then from other machines I set up reverse SSH tunnels to the Tor server, and set the SOCKS proxy in Firefox to one of the 15 ports I have set up with TBB.
Please no lectures. I am fully aware of what can come through to my browser. I'm more concerned about the Tor server being compromised, in which case they'd be tied up in the virtual machine.
But with version 8 of TBB with every SSL site I get,
"Secure Connection Failed
"The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading."
Apparently this is due to the tighter configs in the TBB.
I've tried installing Tails in the VM, but always have trouble booting a VM to a DVD image. I'd like to run Tails from a chattr +i .iso DVD device, or maybe a USB device, but it doesn't work with a KVM VM, and I can't get in to Tails' XMPP support as I haven't had time to set up and learn it.
Input is welcomed on the best direction to go from here.
----------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe or change other settings go to
https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

So far I've gotten 5 emails from ***@gw.emoea.com who wants to meet to have sex, but no other responses.

Is this the Tor users' list?

[Whonix]

have you tried doing that with whonix-kvm version?

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/KVM

Post by Iamnotanumber
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

I find that with Tor Browser 8, I can no longer use the method I've run for years. I have Tor from the TBB running in a KVM virtual machine dedicated to that. Then from other machines I set up reverse SSH tunnels to the Tor server, and set the SOCKS proxy in Firefox to one of the 15 ports I have set up with TBB.
Please no lectures. I am fully aware of what can come through to my browser. I'm more concerned about the Tor server being compromised, in which case they'd be tied up in the virtual machine.
But with version 8 of TBB with every SSL site I get,
"Secure Connection Failed
"The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading."
Apparently this is due to the tighter configs in the TBB.
I've tried installing Tails in the VM, but always have trouble booting a VM to a DVD image. I'd like to run Tails from a chattr +i .iso DVD device, or maybe a USB device, but it doesn't work with a KVM VM, and I can't get in to Tails' XMPP support as I haven't had time to set up and learn it.
Input is welcomed on the best direction to go from here.
----------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe or change other settings go to
https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Is this the Tor users' list?

[Alec Muffett]

So far I've gotten 5 emails from ... who wants to meet to have sex, but no
other responses.
Is this the Tor users' list?

There appears to be some kind of bot which sends repeated porn/sex-related
emails to people who post to various Tor maillists.

It's a nuisance but I just mark them as spam, albeit they arrive from
disparate email addresses.

Re: your problem, I regret I tend to use simpler and easier to debug
configurations than you describe.

-a

[Lara]

Post by Alec Muffett
There appears to be some kind of bot which sends repeated porn/sex-related
emails to people who post to various Tor maillists.
It's a nuisance but I just mark them as spam, albeit they arrive from
disparate email addresses.

Observations:

* the mails come *only* after posting. As an infrequent poster, I see mails coming say 24h after and none later.
* the mails come from what my FastMail spam filters deem clean hosts.

[Whonix]

the spamming email is this one:

***@sg.emoea.com

and its smart bot . as it keeps sending emails containing links (which
most likely melcious one) plus social engineering of picky words to make
you press on the link.

Post by Alec Muffett

So far I've gotten 5 emails from ... who wants to meet to have sex, but no
other responses.
Is this the Tor users' list?

There appears to be some kind of bot which sends repeated porn/sex-related
emails to people who post to various Tor maillists.
It's a nuisance but I just mark them as spam, albeit they arrive from
disparate email addresses.
Re: your problem, I regret I tend to use simpler and easier to debug
configurations than you describe.
-a