Shameless exploit of meme I know... I can’t take it anymore! I lurk on irc.freenode.net and /r/netsec and have seen a few too many mornings now that some person is safe, they used Tor. There is a big misunderstanding in what Tor actually does and protects. Here is my log in the fire to help explain the technology. Lets start with the basics… ...
Facebook for all the lack of privacy controls and bad press, does in fact keep an eye on users. A few times since I started connecting to their jabber chat service through Tor I have been greeted to the following screen. I enjoy seeing what all nodes exist for exiting the Tor network, but wonder about the correlation possible. All the same I thought it was interesting for geek fodder: ...
With the release of 3.0.1 of BitlBee you can now chat from your favorite IRC client with the peace of mind that your protected. Since the OTR portion is still very new I wanted to put together a quick howto. I am going to assume you are running Debian Lenny (sid has 3.0.1 in the packages already) and that you really are a security nut: Download source from http://get.bitlbee.org/src/bitlbee-3.0.1.tar.gz sudo apt-get install libotr2-dev libotr2-bin ./configure –prefix=/usr –otr=1 make make install make install-etc Done! Now once you start bitlbee (/etc/init.d/bitlbee start) for the first time it will generate your OTR keys. I am going to assume that you are going to use the Question and Answer verification for OTR keys. With our other secure buddy we do the following: ...
In my continuation of howto secure your phone habits while on the go, we have come to anonymizing your traffic. There are a few reasons to do this: On a public internet network and have no access to a VPN In a country that censors the internet (Hi China!) You like to keep your identity somewhat off the grid for whatever reason TOR was developed to allow for all of the above. Due to the open nature of Android and the user-base, it was quickly ported back in 2009. The Guardian Project leads the effort and has since provided 4 main components. Today I will be focusing on the Orbot (TOR+Proxy) and the Firefox extension to allow proxy usage. In addition you can use their Jabber client for anonymous and encrypted chatting. So lets get to setting things up! A few things you need to grab from market: ...