A few items to report today:
(1) The Tor Project announced a fix this morning to a major security vulnerability in Debian's OpenSSL packages. We have now upgraded all the Tor software on our pickaproxy.com servers so you do not have to do anything yourself.
(2) When I first checked the number of Tor proxy servers running the new version this morning I found only 3 of them. (You can check this yourself anytime by going to http://www.pickaproxy.com/?speak=tor. Look for the "Recommended Version Summary" drop-down list on the left.) After upgrading our own servers I see there are now 8 running the new version as of 13:10 pm EDT, leaving about 160 others needing to be upgraded. This is pretty cool information to have at your fingertips, eh?
(3) The stunnel settings for the non-China proxies are "accept = 8100" and "connect = nonCN.pickaproxy.com:17231". Your proxy settings would be "localhost port 8100" as it would be for any stunnel users, to indicate stunnel was running on your computer in the background waiting for connections to port 8100 from your browser or whatever other program you may be using. (Yes, you could configure your stunnel to run on a different port than 8100 - it is your choice. Check our May 1 blog for more details on stunnel.)
(4) The stunnel settings for the non-Germany proxies are "accept = 8100" and "connect = nonDE.pickaproxy.com:17233".
(5) The stunnel settings for the non-US proxies are "accept = 8100" and "connect = nonUS.pickaproxy.com:17225"
(6) I see that lots of people have been using our pickaproxy.com geospoofing service over the past 25 days since we launched it on a tryout basis. There have been over 15,000 different web sites accessed through it so far. We are still working on improving it, providing more control and more information to our users, and figuring out how best to define and distinguish our free services from subscription services. We are also currently working on a way to let iPhone and iPod Touch users connect to us, we are working on having proxy auto-configuration PAC files for you to simplify changing your proxy settings, and we are designing an Internet Explorer and Firefox toolbar/addon to let you easily control and monitor your pickaproxy.com settings.
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