Re: Using pidgin with tor in freenode

2015-06-30 Thread David Woolley
On 30/06/15 07:55, Pickfire wrote: I look at the instructions to use tor in freenode but it doesn't work. Does anyone knows how to use pidgin with tor in freenode? The TOR plugins are third party. Use the website indicated on https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins to find where

Re: Using pidgin with tor in freenode

2015-06-30 Thread Pickfire
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 08:05:29AM +0100, David Woolley wrote: On 30/06/15 07:55, Pickfire wrote: I look at the instructions to use tor in freenode but it doesn't work. Does anyone knows how to use pidgin with tor in freenode? The TOR plugins are third party. Use the website indicated on

Re: Using Pidgin with TOR

2012-02-08 Thread David Woolley
Ryan K wrote: TOR reports that Pidgin has a bug that results in DNS leaks when using What is TOR? I've never heard of a DNS leak before. Apparently it means that DNS is handled by the normal servers, rather than by those provided by some sort of anonymising proxy service. The presumption

Re: Using Pidgin with TOR

2012-02-08 Thread Daniel Atallah
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 20:55, Ryan K travellintr...@hotmail.com wrote: TOR reports that Pidgin has a bug that results in DNS leaks when using XMPP.  If I use Pidgin with only other Pidgin users, do I require XMPP.  Can XMPP be disabled? What you're referring to is no longer an issue since

Re: Using Pidgin with TOR

2012-02-08 Thread Isaac Witmer
Regarding the second issue, XMPP is a protocol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP This may also be useful: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Protocol%20Specific%20Questions#XMPPJabberProtocol The point is, if you're communicating to your friends OVER XMPP, then disabling XMPP will disable

Re: Using Pidgin with TOR

2012-02-08 Thread Daniel Atallah
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 09:31, Isaac Witmer isaa...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding the second issue, XMPP is a protocol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP This may also be useful: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Protocol%20Specific%20Questions#XMPPJabberProtocol The point is, if you're

Using Pidgin with TOR

2012-02-07 Thread Ryan K
Hello, TOR reports that Pidgin has a bug that results in DNS leaks when using XMPP. If I use Pidgin with only other Pidgin users, do I require XMPP. Can XMPP be disabled? Thank you, Ryan ___