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How can you export cookies from the Tor Browser Bundle?
Cookies don't show up in Privacy & Security Preferences when you click Manage Data (it shows no cookies even when there are cookies), which appears to be inherited from Firefox's Private Browsing mode.
As a temporary fix I tried using the extension…
Mark
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What is iat-mode at the end of obfs4's bridge lines?
By looking at a obfs4 bridge, we can see that it ends with iat-mode=x which x can be 0, 1 or 2.
Bridge obfs4 1.2.3.4:9443 0F2C3218 cert=FH+9dukjekdfhcn iat-mode=0
What does this iat-mode indicates about a bridge?
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Permission issues setting up hidden service
I am trying to experiment with running my blog as a hidden service. I am using debian on a vps to host my blog. I am using apache2 run as user www-data.
I had to chown /var/www/wordpress to debian-tor to get the private key and hostname created.…
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Why does TOR not intentionally choose nodes from different countries?
I've read than if an attacker could control both entry and exit node into the tor network he could easily de-anonymize TOR users. I have also read that TOR chooses nodes at random. So my question is wouldn't it be better to ensure that nodes are…
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Application request when we haven't used client functionality lately
Just glanced at my logs and noticed 50+ messages like this from tor. What exactly do these messages mean? I don't think I was using tor at the time the messages occurred. What might've invoked them?
Nov 17 10:03:34 hostname Tor[17074]: Application…
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How do I report a security issue to the Tor project?
I have found a security issue in Tor which allows for information leakage in certain scenarios. I went to report this to the Tor project, but found nothing more than a bug tracker, and no obvious documentation of a procedure to report significant…
cypherpunks
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Vanity onion address not working properly
I have a hidden service with a normal onion address created by the tor program. I then made a vanity address using Scallion and added this to my Tor configuration as a second hidden service but pointing it to the same server directory, ie they are…
Pegomya
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How do I make sure my Tor hidden service gets trustworthy entry guards?
The Tor site's page about hidden service communication mentions that a given hidden service will always use the same set of entry guards:
At this point it is of special importance that the hidden service sticks to the same set of entry guards when…
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Error torsocks: Unable to resolve
I'm using torify on CentOS, and when I try torify wget ... I always get the same error message:
ERROR torsocks[32190]: Unable to resolve. Status reply: 4 (in socks5_recv_resolve_reply() at socks5.c:666)
failed: Non-recoverable failure in name…
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How can I remove flash player forever from Tor?
Somehow flash player has gotten inside Tor and I do not like it. It offered one-click enable flash, but it doesn't state its risks and how long it will be enabled. I don't want to give up privacy for any videos, in fact, I want flash player to never…
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How much does it cost to change Tor identity?
Assume we are refreshing a web page very quickly and fresh identity is needed for each request. My question is how often we can change IP on Tor network?
More briefly how much computation and how much time (in average please) is required for each…
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Why does Tor Browser auto-reset DisableNetwork setting to 1 after Tor Browser Exit?
1.) Why does my Tor Browser auto-reset the DisableNetwork setting to "1" after Tor Browser shutsdown for a clean "Exit"?
2.) How should I stop this settings auto-reset behavior so I do not have to re-edit the torrc configuration file every time I…
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I can select exit node, I can select entry node. Can I select middle node?
I can select exit node by torrc option.
I can select entry node, similar way, right?
Can I select middle node?
In other word, can I select full chain by hand in torrc?
Three fingerprints and nothing more...
EntryNodes fingerprint#1
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ExitNodes…
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Why does Torbutton circuit view not consistently show the correct exit node?
Making an arbitrary number of new identities will eventually cause the circuit view in Torbutton to show the wrong exit node.
This is a screenshot I took to show the problem. Notice Torbutton thinks my IP address is 104.167.102.244 and in Canada.…
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Is my Tor browser's connection to the Tor routing network encrypted?
I have frequently heard that the endpoints of a Tor connection are unencrypted. This makes no sense to me. If the purpose of Tor was originally to protect dissidents in places like China, then why would the connection from a computer running Tor…
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