I’m thinking to experiment with a loosely organised but perhaps more regular posting style. I’m going to post these under the tag “journal” because I think that will fit these quite well. We’ll see if I keep these up, or if this one ends up standing alone. For many people right now is a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear and loss. For me though today was pretty much a normal day.
I’ve been rebuilding my IRC bouncer setup and as part of this process I’ve decided to connect to IRC via onion services where possible. This setup isn’t intended to provide anonymity as once I’m connected I’m going to identify to NickServ anyway. I guess it provides a little protection in that my IP address shouldn’t be visible in that gap between connection and a cloak activating, but there’s so many other ways that my identity could leak.
At some point, I might write up a series of articles on the Tor Directory Protocol and how it is all working, but first there are some things I’m trying to get my head around in order to finish off a new specification for Tor Exit Lists that will include signatures. Tor Exit Lists are produced by an “exit scanner”. We archive exit lists and use them to provide data for ExoneraTor and Onionoo.