Notices by #honobono (honobono@ieji.de)

@SolSoCoG Working now, ty! But correct me if I'm wrong. A hidden service (.onion) is exit-node-agnostic, isn't it? A malicious node can't mess with .onion connections, unlike Tor connections over clearnet - isn't that the whole point of a hidden service?

Besides, it's hard to abuse an onion address due to PoW, isn't it? Why do you have it if you block it (and not even sending the Onion-Location header)? Tor abusers have started giving you a hard time?

@SolSoCoG https://iejideks5zu2v3zuthaxu5zz6m5o2j7vmbd24wh6dnuiyl7c6rfkcryd.onion/ is down again ^^;

@SolSoCoG thx

@SolSoCoG Thanks for your helpfulness.
Could you connect to http://iejideks5zu2v3zuthaxu5zz6m5o2j7vmbd24wh6dnuiyl7c6rfkcryd.onion/ ?
Also, https://ieji.de/ still may time out too, though trying several exit nodes.

@SolSoCoG 1) Onion seems down. 2) Clearnet over Tor is less reliable than it used to be. Did you add some kind of anti-ddos, which may pre-emptively block Tor users who are doing nothing bad?

@SolSoCoG Onion is not working? Got an invalid cert, not for ieji but for www.bocholt.social

@SolSoCoG Although this might imply the gap and rich and poor, it’s a great thing (net positive) that our admin is wealthy, using fast, finest devices and markedly privacy-focused… 😼

Happy holidays :)

@SolSoCoG Get well soon 💐

Thinking positively, you might get (strong?) immunity after one victory, so that this ’Rona bug can never bother you again in the future 🙂
Maybe, maybe not. I’m not an expert, this is not medical advice 😅 Take care :)

@SolSoCoG In the latest Tor Browser released just a few days ago, the recent Cloudflare-related issue, where snowflake is trying to connect to Cloudflare IP(s), was treated as a bug (because it times out) and fixed. It seems that among other pro-democracy people, a lot of Iranian users were affected by this indiscriminate blocking by Cloudflare.

@SolSoCoG Yes, more like 3–4 times. A cheap VPS may be like €1/mo, while privacy one starts from €3–10. Privacy can be costly for various reasons.

Njalla is known to be expensive and weird, but they directly accept crypto; paste your pgp pub and communication is pgp. No other companies are like them.

A new, economic version of Njalla is IncogNET (anonymous domain, anonymous hosting). Without a long track record, with a few potential limitations.

https://kycnot.me/

https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2023/08/announcing-tor-university-challenge

EFF has launched their campaign for getting more Tor relays running at universities.
https://toruniversity.eff.org/

If you are at a university, consider setting up relays there. Hopefully this list will make you impressed and you will want to get your university onto it:
Technical University Berlin (Germany)
Boston University (US)
University of Cambridge (England)
…
https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-effs-university-tor-relay-campaign/8706

Advocacy doc: why relays especially make sense at universities
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/72