Re: [tor-relays] About TBB downloadings
Lluís wrote: In the web page here: https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en#warning advises us not to ... open documents downloaded through Tor while online Many technical manuals and scientific papers are written in pdf format, and I usually read them. The reason for this is that offline applications can leak information outside of Tor. If the file downloaded contained an identifier unique to your Tor connection, and an application outside of that Tor connection leaked the identifier, then it would breach anonymity. For example, if you downloaded a HTML page as a file and an image contained a unique ID this could occur. To answer your question (or not really): Is it safe to download them with TBB first and then open them with, say, Document Viewer ? Where can I find more information about it ? I'm not sure whether Evince (I'm assuming this is what you're referring to) leaks information, e.g. downloading of external resources. By the way, Tails solves this problem by forcing all applications to go through Tor. -- Andrew Roffey http://andrew.roffey.org [mailto|xmpp]:and...@roffey.org see website for GPG/OTR pubkeys ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] About TBB downloadings
Lluís wrote: In the web page here: https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en#warning advises us not to ... open documents downloaded through Tor while online Many technical manuals and scientific papers are written in pdf format, and I usually read them. Also, if you use the in-built PDF reader in Tor Browser then you should be safe. But not all PDF downloads use the correct PDF MIME type, which is why your browser might want to download it and show that particular error. -- Andrew Roffey http://andrew.roffey.org [mailto|xmpp]:and...@roffey.org see website for GPG/OTR pubkeys ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] Best way for normal OS X users to run a relay?
JT Allison: I guess the question here is whether these bundles help or actually hurt the network? I mean people install OSX and windows on their personal computers, not their servers. Every time they close the lid of their laptop a nod will go down. They could run it on a desktop. Lots of people leave their desktop machines running 24/7. Is it advisable to run a Tor node on a personal computer? This has probably been discussed before, but I was under the impression that this isn't always recommended (especially for exit nodes), e.g. in the case of seizure. -- Andrew Roffey http://andrew.roffey.org GPG personal: 0x9657B073 ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
