Re: flag to use tor

[Zhu Zihao]

What's is torsocks? Is this one?

https://github.com/dgoulet/torsocks

If so, according to its README. Maybe you can use a shell wrapper to
launch emacs

#+BEGIN_SRC
#!/bin/sh
export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libtorsocks.so
exec -a "$0" emacs "$@"
#+END_SRC

Emacs, and its subprocess would inherit this environment variable and
allow torsocks to intercept network connection and force them in Tor.


Richard Stallman writes:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> Many Emacs commands connect to internet sites for various reasons.
> vc does so, M-x irc does so, and I don't know how much else.
>
> I want to connect through Tor all the time, but sometimes these
> commands betray me.  I added a switch to VC to make it connect
> through Tor always, but it would be good to have a facility that
> would do this to all internet connections that Emacs packages make.
>
> Some packages connect directly in Lisp. and some connect by running
> subprocesses.  For the subprocesses, using 'torsocks' is an easy fix.
> The hard part is to change all the packages that need fixing.
>
> A super-simple approach is to have a switch with two settings: Tor, or
> not Tor.  A more complex feature would give a systematic way to
> specify exceptions.
>
> What do people think?


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