Geoffrey Goodell <goodell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said
on May 06, 2008 8:40 -0400 (in part):@Geoff - I take it you are the same Goodell as in the "Blossom" link in the TOR FAQ? I tried googling"Perspective Access Network" - 11 hits including some references to Blossom and a PDF of yours (?). Is the Vidalia "pipeline" you mentioned this?me: >I came to TOR looking not so much for the ability to surf anonymously but to convince my end target that I'm from a particular country. Primarily to allow use of streaming media (radio and video) from sites that restrict access to those from the United States.What you are looking for is a -- an overlay network that allows you to choose the perspective from which you want to access Internet services. Tor allows controllers such as Vidalia to determine exactly how circuits are built and which TCP streams are attached. However, to our knowledge nothing that gives you what you want in a useful way actually exists at this point. Fortunately, there is a project in the Vidalia project pipeline to build perspective choices (such as choosing the country in which you want your exit node to reside). Matt Edman and Camilo Viecco know more about this. {7} Pending Enhancements (25 matches) View a list of enhancements planned for future versions of Vidalia. http://trac.vidalia-project.net/report/7I don't recognize anything there as on point? Is there somewhere I can "lurk" to follow the progress of this project? @Scott: I downloaded http://torstatus.kgprog.com/ip_list_all.php/Tor_ip_list_ALL.csv hacked about with Excel and found 62 "nicknames" in US, bandwidth >= 100 KBS and uptime-days >= 10 and then added these two lines to torrc:Yes. Pick some U.S.-based exit nodes, and use the .exit notation you referred to above. It means choosing your exits by hand, rather than letting tor do that, but it will get you to the exit you want, provided that exit is running and reachable from your location. ExitNodes sneaker,croeso,bettyboop,..., 59 moreguess what - it works! I've been happily listening to "stations" I set up on Pandora 16 months ago before they blacked out everything outside the US for the last 4 hours and even watched two clips from Saturday Night Live. Life is GOOD :-) Is this usage "OK" or am I abusing the spirit of TOR? One new question: I found a number of "what is my ip" sites and all of them agree that my URL originates in the US except for: http://www.ip2location.com/ which reports my true location in CANADA, ONTARIO, AURORA. I really don't mind but wonder if they've done something "special" the others haven't? If I cared enough, would this be where I start using Privoxy and/or other techniques described in the TOR-FAQ? Regards ... Alec -- buralex-gmail -- |