On 07/05/2010 03:07 PM, coderman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:17 PM, coderman <coder...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ... >> a better wording: >> >> "... ultimately, any application that uses DNS or UDP may compromise >> your anonymity." > > i should mention that the Tor Browser Bundle when used as directed has > been and continues to be most resilient to these attacks. while this > is a very limited environment (no plug-ins, flash, java, etc.) these > limitations are a feature ensuring your protection. >
I think that the TBB could use one and only one major enhancement: a DNS proxy that is used by all of the applications that ship with it. > when you start using arbitrary applications or plug-ins with Tor or > any other anonymity service you open yourself up to great risk as > described here for DNS, not to mention other side channels avenues > using TCP directly. I agree. I think that this is inspiring me to work on torwall a little more next week... All the best, Jake *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/