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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Popeye Trading on March 27, 2013, 02:39 am
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Cant login to tormail.org?
Is it down?
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Assuming so, I'm having the same issue
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It says the database is down. This has happened before. Usually the admins become aware of it and fix it within a few hours.
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sooooo.not time to panic? :-[
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Past performance is not always indicative of future results, but yeah, when this happened before, it came back after a few hours.
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You're right astor. I don't know who runs that service, but they do a great job for zero dollars!
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Been down all day for me. Its been this way a few times over the past year or so, prob be fixed soon :)
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Thank god I found this thread. I was freaking out just about to post this,
"I emailed myself four 500$ Moneypaks. I threw away the physical cards knowing they were saved in tormail.
Now for the last day I keep getting this same error,
"ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server."
It won't let me log into tormail!!!! I was supposed to send someone the 2000$ earlier today. Am I fucked?
Someone please I beg you help me."
I really hope tormail is up soon because if not.... Well bad things are going to happen to me.
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Same for me thru Squirrel on multiple accounts.
Always nice to find out it is not just me :-)
Luckily this is keeping me from selling Btc, which are continuing their meteoric rise in value atm. Sadly, The Road is lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep ;-)
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SquirrelMail shows Connection dropped by IMAP and RoundCube shows Database error : connection failed.
Hope this gets sorted soon :)
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Still down for me.
I have made some donations in the past. Keep Tor strong!
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Am I wrong, this is the longest tormail has been down with this specific error.
I'm starting to worry
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Yeah, still getting Database Error: Connection Failed.
And of course the only way to get a hold of the admins is to... email admin@tormail.org.
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I'm surprised anyone would use a TorMail address with a legitimate business like Green Dot. That just screams "I'm doing illegal shit."
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sigh: down for me to
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I'm surprised anyone would use a TorMail address with a legitimate business like Green Dot. That just screams "I'm doing illegal shit."
Well then it would seem this could be said the same for using Money Gram to zip to Bit to MtG wouldn'y it???
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FUCK
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God damn perfect timing. If anyone finds anything out please post it immediately.
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FUCK !!!
Does anyone know of any other good anonymous email services ?
Ill just create new accounts for all I have, I got get that damn coin in :( !!
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Come on, anyone??? Someone give me good news.
Please
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I think we are back in !!! :)
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And.... We're back in. Thank fuck. Probably should backup Tormail. What similar services are there?
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PRAISE BE
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I pretty much came in my pants when The page loaded and I got into my account
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I'm surprised anyone would use a TorMail address with a legitimate business like Green Dot. That just screams "I'm doing illegal shit."
Well then it would seem this could be said the same for using Money Gram to zip to Bit to MtG wouldn'y it???
No equivalency between the two. Using a tormail address will raise red flags with all kinds of financial organizations, while buying BTC doesn't. Some banks even handle the cash side of the transaction. Now, I don't do business with Mt. Gox because I think there are better, more private ways to do business, so if you do, that's your bag to carry. But, leave tormail for Tor stuff, and clearnet addresses for clearnet stuff, and never the twain should meet.
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Everything tor-ish has been quirky for me lately. But yea tor mail was down for a while for me also.
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Chill out guys, I'm sure it will be back up soon and we can all get back to our email.
It is best practice to assume all of your emails are being read by someone, so make sure you use PGP encryption.
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email is so 1996
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Back online.
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Offline again. Are there any reliability figures for tormail any more specific than "iffy"?
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Yes down again.
Was back up earlyer but now the URL doesn't reach to anything.
So mess up.
Hope we are not gonna loose it ^^
I don't think there's anyway to reach them.
!!!
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is there another email service like tor mail we can use
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Check out i2p mail...
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bump.
i2p research underway.
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down again ;(
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It's the price we've gotta pay :/
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now what :(
i need a more reliable email as I was expecting a couple emails tonight ;(
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Maybe it's a good time to mention Bitmessage.
https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page
Make sure you run it over Tor.
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yeah, down again, trying to get into my emails all day without success for fucks sake.
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It's anonymous and free so maybe we shouldn't crucify them for the down time- Okay fine but I am loosing tons of sales every time it happens so they need to at least acknowledge when it goes down, give an estimate of when it will come back online, explain why it is happening 2-3 times weekly all the sudden, and maybe offer to forward incoming to a different address on a different service in the downtime if possible.
Is there some way to make an email address that is actually multiple addresses hosted by multiple servers? So someone sends to lets say fakeaddress123@sendingeverywhere.com and it forwards the message to tormail and five other addresses... then if the sendingeverywhere.com server is down it's okay because it went to another called alsosendseverywhere.com which is hosted on totally seperate servers...?? does anything remotely like this exist or has anyone got a viable solution? I have had three of my providers go down in the past month so it is getting to be a big issue for my clear web businesses.
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Yea has been down for me for a few days. Kind of starting to worry. I'm sure they will have it back up soon enough, but in the meantime I have all these paranoid fantasies about them being raided by the FBI or NSA or some crap. :-/
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Lucky I took out all the information I had stored in tormail for the two days it was up.
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Lucky I took out all the information I had stored in tormail for the two days it was up.
yeah, definitely doing that once I can finally get in
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Replying to keep an eye on this.
Cheers all,
Snoopish
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I use thrunderbird to download my tormail so I at least have my old messages. Keep it all wrapped up in a truecrypt container. Their smtp works like shit so I use lavabit for that....
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My friend said he saw Turkish writing on the site. But I don't. Does anyone else see a message from Turkish hackers or is my friend's computer fucked up instead? LOL
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Ready for it to be back up... Only just started on Tormail a few days ago and now... Damn.
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I got a message on here from someone that said this is the new squirrel mail and cube mail link:
tormail links: http://jhiwjjltwc23w5fb.onion (squirrelmail) and http://jhiwjjljtqrtkr7t.onion (cube)
Is this a phishing scam or is this legit? I'm afraid to put my info in.
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I got a message on here from someone that said this is the new squirrel mail and cube mail link:
tormail links: http://jhiwjjltwc23w5fb.onion (squirrelmail) and http://jhiwjjljtqrtkr7t.onion (cube)
Is this a phishing scam or is this legit? I'm afraid to put my info in.
I got the same PM from a person called (uketalar)
this is the PM i got from him
tormail links: http://jhiwjjltwc23w5fb.onion (squirrelmail) and http://jhiwjjljtqrtkr7t.onion (cube)
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I got the same message from the same person.
I have multiple tormail accounts so I tried logging in on one I don't care about and nothing happened, so I assume it's a scam.
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Dear Tormail, yous are holding up a deal and putting a fucking hole in my pocket. Please sort it out.
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Anyone having problems with tormail?
I almost never use it but have reason to at the moment and it keeps giving me errors connecting to the database or IMAP server.
Yes. It has been down for days and is still down as of 5 minutes ago. I really need it up, too. :'(
Piece, Love, and Fuck Haters.
[Edit. I have multiple tabs up, but I thought there was another thread up I wanted to post on]
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fuck!!!!! i need tormail to secure a qp from an off sr source
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Cube mail seemed to have worked for me now
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tormail is BACK up guys
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YES
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It was up last night. worked fine...Now when I really need it it I can't log on.
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I use thrunderbird to download my tormail so I at least have my old messages. Keep it all wrapped up in a truecrypt container. Their smtp works like shit so I use lavabit for that....
How do you get this to work? I tried to setup thunderbird for tormail exactly like it intructs in the help section but it hasn't been able to connect even when I'm able to access the account myself. Any help would be much appreciated!
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I use thrunderbird to download my tormail so I at least have my old messages. Keep it all wrapped up in a truecrypt container. Their smtp works like shit so I use lavabit for that....
How do you get this to work? I tried to setup thunderbird for tormail exactly like it intructs in the help section but it hasn't been able to connect even when I'm able to access the account myself. Any help would be much appreciated!
Go to the help section on tormails website and it tells you.
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I use thrunderbird to download my tormail so I at least have my old messages. Keep it all wrapped up in a truecrypt container. Their smtp works like shit so I use lavabit for that....
How do you get this to work? I tried to setup thunderbird for tormail exactly like it intructs in the help section but it hasn't been able to connect even when I'm able to access the account myself. Any help would be much appreciated!
Go to the help section on tormails website and it tells you.
As I said that is what I did but it doesn't work so I guess you answered the question behind the question -which was- is that instruction theoretically correct... now needing to troubleshoot.
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If you use Thunderbird, then you should install the TorBirdy extension to increase your security and anonymity. It was created by a Tor developer for that purpose.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/
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Is Tormail down again?
Seems like it has been for me for like 12 hours or more.
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its still down for me
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Yes. But the real question is why so many times this year.
~burner
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Must be under attack, such as silkroad.
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People get more paranoid tho because tormail never releases any information on whats going on.
Chaos
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It's long overdue for a fix, guys. I just can't believe it's been down for at least 48 hours, possibly 72. And no, they don't say anything. There's an email address to write them, admin@tormail.org, but what's the point? They wouldn't get it anyway.
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I am done with tormail. As with DPR's statement regarding the recent DDOS attack on Silk Road, I'm glad to have experienced this inconvenient disruption of tormail service - it has forced me to strengthen my cryptography and anonymity practices.
Who runs tormail? Unknown. Thus prudence demands that you accept that 100% of emails may be accessible to law enforcement or whatever other worst case scenario entity your mind can come up with.
Why does this mystery party run tormail? Unknown. Thus you cannot assume they are protective of your communication, or respect your privacy.
What is happening with the recent outages? Unknown. Whoever runs tormail isn't keeping us in the loop. This is a major red flag, and unacceptable.
For those interested in an alternative, eff.org has written an article worth reading:
CLEARNET WARNING
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/tutorial-how-create-anonymous-email-accounts
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I am done with tormail. As with DPR's statement regarding the recent DDOS attack on Silk Road, I'm glad to have experienced this inconvenient disruption of tormail service - it has forced me to strengthen my cryptography and anonymity practices.
Who runs tormail? Unknown. Thus prudence demands that you accept that 100% of emails may be accessible to law enforcement or whatever other worst case scenario entity your mind can come up with.
Why does this mystery party run tormail? Unknown. Thus you cannot assume they are protective of your communication, or respect your privacy.
What is happening with the recent outages? Unknown. Whoever runs tormail isn't keeping us in the loop. This is a major red flag, and unacceptable.
For those interested in an alternative, eff.org has written an article worth reading:
CLEARNET WARNING
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/tutorial-how-create-anonymous-email-accounts
If you create that account (tormail) with bogus info, and only access it through the tor browser and you encrypt all sensitive email via PGP then would LE even be able to do anything useful with anything tormail servers would have anyway?
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shit! I have 1500 dollars worth of bitcoins in my bitstamp account, and my user id number to log in is on my tormail account. I was hoping to transfer over some bitcoins to SR to make a quick purchase while the site was up. So many obstacles are standing between me and my drugs! Has this issue been going on continuously, or has tormail been turning on and off sporadically?
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It'll likely come back for a while before it goes down again. At one point they had it fully operable for almost a week but sometimes it's only an hour or two. I imagine one of these times it will not come back to life again at all just as so many other sites in the past.
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I am done with tormail. As with DPR's statement regarding the recent DDOS attack on Silk Road, I'm glad to have experienced this inconvenient disruption of tormail service - it has forced me to strengthen my cryptography and anonymity practices.
Who runs tormail? Unknown. Thus prudence demands that you accept that 100% of emails may be accessible to law enforcement or whatever other worst case scenario entity your mind can come up with.
Why does this mystery party run tormail? Unknown. Thus you cannot assume they are protective of your communication, or respect your privacy.
What is happening with the recent outages? Unknown. Whoever runs tormail isn't keeping us in the loop. This is a major red flag, and unacceptable.
For those interested in an alternative, eff.org has written an article worth reading:
CLEARNET WARNING
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/tutorial-how-create-anonymous-email-accounts
If you create that account (tormail) with bogus info, and only access it through the tor browser and you encrypt all sensitive email via PGP then would LE even be able to do anything useful with anything tormail servers would have anyway?
+1 for the attempt to help with the email tutorial. However, I would never use Hushmail. Find a smaller email provider or simply use PGP.
Modzi
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I am done with tormail. As with DPR's statement regarding the recent DDOS attack on Silk Road, I'm glad to have experienced this inconvenient disruption of tormail service - it has forced me to strengthen my cryptography and anonymity practices.
Who runs tormail? Unknown. Thus prudence demands that you accept that 100% of emails may be accessible to law enforcement or whatever other worst case scenario entity your mind can come up with.
Why does this mystery party run tormail? Unknown. Thus you cannot assume they are protective of your communication, or respect your privacy.
What is happening with the recent outages? Unknown. Whoever runs tormail isn't keeping us in the loop. This is a major red flag, and unacceptable.
For those interested in an alternative, eff.org has written an article worth reading:
CLEARNET WARNING
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/tutorial-how-create-anonymous-email-accounts
If you create that account (tormail) with bogus info, and only access it through the tor browser and you encrypt all sensitive email via PGP then would LE even be able to do anything useful with anything tormail servers would have anyway?
+1 for the attempt to help with the email tutorial. However, I would never use Hushmail. Find a smaller email provider or simply use PGP.
Modzi
Who do you suggest Modzi?
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Anyone getting on Tor Mail yet? I've never seen it down this long, and my concern is that if I make a bitinstant transaction to Bitcoin Address, and that address is a blockchain wallet, do I need to verify with an email address for the transaction to go through? On blockchain, it just says "recommended" and not "required", so I would think it wouldn't matter, correct?
Thanks for all replies - SR and SR community rocks!
Peace
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guise i just logged into tormail about 45 mins ago i think its back up. PRAISE THE LORD!!
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It's up indeed!
I was trying to register since Monday but the only thing I've got was the database error. And now it's up. Hooray!
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Yes I just logged in as well, but I am a bit pissed off with its constant unreliability.
Piece, Love, and Fuck Haters.
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Yes I just logged in as well, but I am a bit pissed off with its constant unreliability.
Piece, Love, and Fuck Haters.
The problem is it is the only choice out there. The road needs to creat it's own @silkroad.com email service. That would be amazing.
Chaos
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And put all of SR's eggs in one basket? During constant attacks from whoever? Probably not the best idea out there ::)
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Actually it probably could be managed. Just remove it from the main site and restrict membership to Silk Roaders. Or have it open membership if you like. 'silkroad.com' is just an EXAMPLE of a name, could change it to something else a little more subtle to drop the connection here. Only problem is funding. Silk Road mgt are spendthrift beyond belief. They probably wouldn't back it if it meant cost.
At least it's an idea to develop, which is more than some around here do on the forums. TorMail is shot at the knees. (I think astor was gathering forum interest for creating something a little more reliable).
Piece, love, and Fuck Haters.
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Maybe the road could do a test run and charge 10$ an email account. That would cover all costs.
Chaos
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Funnily enough, Tormail is supergood right now. Lightning fast for real! :) :) :)
But if it gets hit again like it was recently, then a paid service is a good idea if some BTC income will help the admins stop attacks.
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Maybe the road could do a test run and charge 10$ an email account. That would cover all costs.
Chaos
Yep. That's what astor was thinking too. He suggested $10 or $20 to stop multiple accounts and provide an incentive to manage it properly. I can't find the link, but I will come back later.
Piece, Love, and Fuck Haters.
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Maybe the road could do a test run and charge 10$ an email account. That would cover all costs.
Chaos
Yep. That's what astor was thinking too. He suggested $10 or $20 to stop multiple accounts and provide an incentive to manage it properly. I can't find the link, but I will come back later.
Piece, Love, and Fuck Haters.
Sounds like a suggestion that some Big names like Astor should be sending to DPR.
Again, damn good idea.
Chaos