astoria

On episode 514, Tor's Astoria Client about the first 30 minutes of the podcast is spent going into extreme detail about how a recent Flash vulnerability was exploited.

Therefore, Astoria is a usable substitute for the vanilla Tor client only in scenarios where security is a high priority.

Hell, even travelling from Astoria to upper Manhattan can be a mess, or crosstown, or whatever.

The NQ line that runs through Astoria will take you to the heart of Silicon Alley.

The video on the Project Astoria page shows an Android app being built for Windows Store using Eclipse on a Mac.

Astoria will in principle work with any old APK, without requiring the developer to do anything but publish the app in the store—as long as the APK sticks to the APIs that Astoria will provide.

My friend is paying <1500/mo for a 1 bedroom in a good part of Astoria that's about 35 mins by foot + subway from times square.

I saw project astoria first time on nokia X website developer.

No it seems like a developer have to integrate with Project Astoria some how to replace the Google APIs with the Microsoft ones and then submit the app to the store.

I'm not done reading the paper, but I suspect that astoria clients could be distinguished from regular tor clients at least by the fact that they do not pre-build circuits.

Also a little OT: I hadn't known that the person behind Waldorf Astoria died on the Titanic, nevermind was an amateur inventor, nevermind was an early dreamer of space travel.

> On the flip side, Astoria will offer some integration points with Windows so that Android devs can, with minor alterations, support features like Cortana in their apps.

That's not what Arstechnica is saying (regarding the recompile - they just need to publish to the store): "Unlike Islandwood, which will require developers themselves to recompile their software to bring it to Windows, Astoria will in principle work with any old APK, without requiring the developer to do anything but publish the app in the store—as long as the APK sticks to the APIs that Astoria will provide."

"Astoria reduces the number of vulnerable circuits from 58 percent to 5.8 percent, the researchers say" Yes, their researched showed that exactly 5.8% circuits would be vulnerable with their change, and measured it accurately to 0.1%.

I find it hard to believe a "stand-up comic, writer and director from Astoria, NY" that "hangs out" in the night scene has not met friends that will sleep with him just for the sake of giving him some experience -- out of philo-love motivation, because having spent a fair bit of time in the area, there are quite a few people who would feel sleeping with a friend in this need is just the right thing to do.

Astoria is nice, and is a quick, above ground (always better) subway ride away from Manhattan.

Sounds like their efforts would be better spent on a ChromeOS-like OS that's only a Tor (or Astoria) browser at its core.

My area (Astoria, Queens) recently got upgraded to 300/20mbps but, to get that speed, I needed to upgrade my modem.