For those using Tor with windows
Wilson
cwilson352 at cogeco.ca
Wed Nov 16 06:09:57 UTC 2005
Nick Mathewson wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:10:12AM -0500, Wilson wrote:
>
>
>>Hi, I'm new here but anyhow... I have developed a program called
>>Nodeblock to block Tor routers outside any
>>country or countries you specify.... im looking for people to test it,
>>i have an ftp setup so you can
>>access it and download the nodeblockv11.rar and the install text
>>file..... make sure you read
>>the text file first before installation and set it up accordingly, or
>>nodeblock will not work.
>>
>>
>
>Hi, and thanks for writing this program. A few questions and
>concerns:
>
> 1. Do you plan on releasing the source code? Nobody should trust a
> security application if it can't be built from source.
>
> 2. Why so large? The nodeblockv11.rar file is over 3 MB in size; by
> way of comparison, the windows Tor installer itself is only 968K.
>
> 3. It looks like you're distributing wget in binary form without
> including the source or the offer you received to get the source;
> unless I'm missing something, this is in violation of clause 3 of
> the GPL.
>
>thanks again,
>
>
Hi Nick, I was unaware of the violation of clause 3 of the GPL.
The rar is very big because of DLL files needed to run certain programs
in nodeblock...
I will put the source code on the ftp....Done
well, the wget source code is bundled with the nodeblock program....
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