Hello
Thanks for your Email
- Sorry for the communication problem , we still working on the website
before launching the system.
- uVirtus is using openVPN + obfsproxy because it's the best module
worked in Syria for the last 2 and half years , Tor is great application
but most of the people prefer VPNs because of the speed , which it's
already slow in Syria, this is one of the main reasons let me setup
servers in DC and Germany to startup the project , also we already have
servers to provide people with VPNS
the other points is controlling the firewall of our infrastructure, for
the last 2 years the SEA was able to develop malware and fake website
and they hacked more than 11K accounts , as Syrian , it will be great to
have a VPN servers behind firewall can block all the fake links or
malware - related IP address, as a Syrian IT group we're following the
threats day by day and it will make our mission easier to just block the
source of the threats.
- The website and the documentation is still under update , we are using
the same structure of tails documentation because it's really great and
helpful and we still didn't finished it , all the references will be
included when we'll be done at 27th . also the I Asked the web developer
to remove the link of the documentation till we finish and sorry for
this mistake :)
- The underground VPN application is Java application can run obfsproxy
+ openvpn according to the attached algorithm, we're using Tor to
download the IP table and the new certificates of the VPN connection
it will be pubic - opensource at 27th .
- Please accept our apologizes if some mistakes happened we need your
support at the end of the day uVirtus main part is based on obfsproxy -
TOR , and we all share the same goals to protect the people.
Best Regards
Dlshad Othman
On 09/13/2013 11:15 AM, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi Dlshad,
>
> (Please keep the public tails-dev mailing-list in the Cc
> list, thanks!)
>
> I'm one of the Tails [1] developers, and someone pointed me at uVirtus
> so I got curious and I had a look to see what we could learn from your
> project. I have some questions for the uVirtus team, but I was not
> able to find any way to reach you all, so I'm writing to you directly.
> Please point me to the relevant contact information, and feel free to
> add the other team members to the loop.
>
> First, I'm glad more and more people are working in this space,
> and different solutions being experimented with!
>
> I don't get why uVirtus is using OpenVPN in addition to Tor (via the
> obfsproxy pluggable transport). I did not find the answer on the
> uVirtus website, and a blog post of yours [4] did not help much.
> Could you please clarify? I've been confused about the claim that
> "uVirtus is providing the anonymity to its users through VPN
> connections to uVirtus servers around the world" [3], which seems to
> contradict the other documentation that talks of obfsproxy.
> More generally, the threat model uVirtus is meant to address was not
> obvious to me after reading the website. How is it different from the
> one we described in the Tails specification [5]? E.g., is uVirtus
> trying to address the "computer equipment that has been used is seized
> and examined by adversaries" threat? What kind of adversary is the
> anonymity meant to be strong against?
>
> uVirtus is released under the GPL (great!), but I was not able to find
> the source code anywhere. Where can I download it to have a look
> behind the curtain?
>
> It seems to me that some Tails documentation was copy'n'pasted, and
> re-published [2] on the uVirtus website under a different license.
> No big harm done, really, but I suspect the uVirtus project will get
> more respect and better cooperation in the free software community if
> you deal more seriously with such copyright and licensing matters.
> Funnily enough, this work is re-published under a license that
> requires attribution to its authors :)
>
> The link to the source code at the end of
> https://uvirtus.org/wiki/index.php/Under_Ground_VPN is broken.
> Is https://github.com/VirtusNow/Updates the right one?
>
> Now going to actually boot uVirtus :)
>
> [1] https://tails.boum.org/
> [2] https://uvirtus.org/wiki/index.php/Burn_to_DVD_or_install_on_USB_stick
> [3] https://uvirtus.org/wiki/index.php/Before_using_uVirtus_you_should_know
> [4] http://www.dlshad.net/?p=135
> [5] https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/
>
> Cheers,
