On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:25 +0200, "intrigeri" <intrig...@boum.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Gregory Maxwell wrote (22 Aug 2010 00:55:49 GMT) : > > I think it's obvious that the best way of using tor is running your > > torrified apps in a VM which can only access the outside world via > > TOR. > > I doubt there is something like "the" best way of using Tor. One > always needs to balance the risks vs. the efforts needed to get some > protection against it. More practically speaking: there are use cases > the Tor Browser Button is perfect for, but it cannot prevent every > leakage of anonymity to local disks. Then come Tor-ified VM setups > that protect users a bit more but still somehow rely on the host > operating system. Then comes running a Tor-ified Live system such as > T(A)ILS [1] on bare metal. Each situation has its best fit solution > but I don't think one solution can be told to be best in any cases. > > [1] https://amnesia.boum.rog/ > That would be '.org' :) BTW is there somewhere from where the CACert root certificate (or fingerprint) can be downloaded with protection from an SSL cert I already trust? The above link, once corrected, generates an SSL warning. GD
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