On 10/01/2008, kazaam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With TorButton I see many problems:
* People use Tor and surfe the web. They then wanna visit a page they trust
and switch off TorButton. On this page they visit a link or so and forget
about not using tor anymore and are possibly redirected to somewhere they
don't want to be visible.
* Someone visits a webpage he thinks he can trust without tor but the domain
went down before and is now redirecting to some jerks. Something similar
happend with dl.am a few weeks ago..
* Or some xss is going on and some hostile webserver gets their IP through
an iframe and kinds of that.
* Surfing two websites, one with tor and the other not at the same time is
nearly impossible with torbutton. I know I can start loading a page with
torbutton and then deactivate torbutton and start loading another page and
the first one still loads to the end with using tor but at the moment I wanna
click a link there I'm fucked...
Never used Foxy Proxy so I can't compare, but just for a slightly
different perspective ...
Points 14: I use multiple Firefox profiles - one for Tor, others for
various different categories of sites (trusted, non-trusted, GMail,
...) which have different security settings. Means more memory/disk
use but also clearly delineates usage. At least in my mind.
Points 23: I run two instances on Privoxy - one for Tor, one for
everything else. Again, more memory/disk, but worth the effort.
I like the idea of knowing exactly how a browser instance is going to
connect to a web server, without having to remember whether or not
I've previously white listed it.
Jo
