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Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat
From: |
Joshua Branson |
Subject: |
Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:57:29 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Mike Gerwitz <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 15:09:51 -0500, Joshua Branson wrote:
>> Now, when you start icecat, you may have to click on the tor plugin to
>> activate it, but it normally autostarts for me.
>>
>> Also, at least for me, that doesn't configure my browser to access tor
>> hidden services. But it does run all of your http traffic through the
>> tor network, which is pretty cool.
>
> That's concerning to me: it seems to imply that DNS requests are _not_
> being proxied through Tor, which could leak very sensitive information
> to your ISP and other parties.
Really!? That's annoying. We should probably report that as a bug!
It's not much help if your DNS is going to your ISP!
>
> I use FoxyProxy Standard[0] (just by habit over the many years I've used
> Tor with Firefox), so I hadn't tried the Addon distributed with
> Icecat. FoxyProxy has an option to proxy DNS requests through Tor (and
> does so by default IIRC).
I'm actually super curious about using local proxies! Ludo uses a
different proxy I think...but there are probably a ton of proxies that
you can run. Can you give me a brief overview of why to use proxies...?
I'm also interested in performance caching proxies...
>
> [0]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/FoxyProxy_Standard
--
Joshua Branson
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- Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat, (continued)
- Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat, Joshua Branson, 2019/01/09
- Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat, Joshua Branson, 2019/01/09
- Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/01/10
- Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat, Joshua Branson, 2019/01/10
- Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat, Joshua Branson, 2019/01/13
Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat, Matthias Lehr, 2019/01/06
Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat, Mike Gerwitz, 2019/01/06
Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat,
Joshua Branson <=
Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat, Chris Marusich, 2019/01/06
Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat, Archetyp Jung, 2019/01/09
Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat, Archetyp Jung, 2019/01/09
Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat, Archetyp Jung, 2019/01/09