Walmart Silliness

[Oldgringo]

Walmart sells guns and bullets and BB's and pellets, etc., etc. They even sell pellet shooting handguns. Walmart's complimentary customer Wifi has the Texas CHL and the Gateway to Airgun forums blocked out.

Is that silly or what?

[Beiruty]

stupid, no?

[casp625]

My gym used to block Texasguntalk but I could still get the CHL forums, Texas gun trader, and gun broker however, that block is no longer in place.

[ScottDLS]

You mean everybody doesn't use Tor Browser for surfing CHLForum? ?

[casp625]

You mean everybody doesn't use Tor Browser for surfing CHLForum? ?

No point if you're not using a VPN ;)

[ScottDLS]

I think Tor encrypts the target url/ip address to prevent the firewall from restricting certain sites. I used Tor to surf facebook from my company VPN until our CISO noticed Tor usage and asked me to stop...

[remington79]

They have a Tor add on that hides the fact that you're using Tor from your ISP.

[Oldgringo]

Uh....what is a Tor?

[treadlightly]

TOR - The Onion Router, nothing to do with The Onion, America's finest news source these past 300 years.

Sometimes called the dark web, home of pedophiles and drug dealers like The Silk Road, now shut down. Or so the popular media proclaims. It may be, I've never used it.

It's very difficult to locate people or servers using Tor. It was developed by very talented folks - the Department of the Navy, I believe.

[Skiprr]

I think Tor encrypts the target url/ip address to prevent the firewall from restricting certain sites. I used Tor to surf facebook from my company VPN until our CISO noticed Tor usage and asked me to stop...

New username: ScottTheDarkWeb.

Uh....what is a Tor?

You probably don't ever need--or want--to know. But if you get curious, you can Google running SSH over a VPN on a VPS using TOR. And other acronyms. But the NSA may be watching...

[Skiprr]

It was developed by very talented folks - the Department of the Navy, I believe.

Winner!

At least mostly. The concept of multiple, distinct, encrypted communication relays--or layers (the onion metaphor)--was done by the Navy sometime, I believe, in the early '90s. Way before the Internet looked like the Internet. I don't remember the development path from there, but it was mostly government funded, at least for many of the early years...maybe longer. I think the first publicly available version of Tor came out about a decade later.

Disclaimer about Forum Rule #20 here. If we see that someone is posting from numerous foreign or known-proxied or relayed IPs, they are subject to immediate banning. Just trying to do something to help assure that the members in this community are legit, and to minimize ever-annoying spam.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming...

[G.A. Heath]

Uh....what is a Tor?

Tor is a Supposedly secure, thought to be highly compromised, peer to peer proxy network that encrypts all traffic before passing it through at least three nodes to hopefully ensure that no one node knows both the source and destination of a packet that is slower than a snail on sandpaper.

[ScottDLS]

Uh....what is a Tor?

"The Onion Router" a browser network that bounces your Web site requests through multiple encrypted server/routers worldwide to disguise the computer that is being used to browse as well as to hide the sites visited. Originally developed by the US Navy (after DARPA, but before Al Gore), but now technology run by a non-profit consortium.

Also can be used to surf hundreds of hidden sites called the "Dark Web" where all manner of illegal products/services are available ranging from "agricultural products" to "weapons" to counterfeit documents and currency. Surf at your own risk and bring plenty of BitCoin.

[Redneck_Buddha]

They are probably using an enterprise blacklist provider like Barracuda. Barracuda Networks is headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan and their leadership is completely anti 2A and predictably left on other matters.

[TexasJohnBoy]

If y'all think Tor is creepy (I don't, I think it's great) you should look up something called I2P.