More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu (Version .2)

2009-09-14 Thread Ringo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, So I worked a little more on this guide and I have worked out (hopefully) all the bugs and kinks. Please try this guide out and let me know how it works for you. This is still a beta thing so please be careful and don't do anything you need s

Re: More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu

2009-08-24 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Kyle Williams wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o > <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com>wrote: > == >> >> 1. Which VM software are the most breakout proof, should an >> attacker gain access with a root shell? >> > > This is a tricky question which depends on your requirements. Befo

Re: More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu

2009-08-24 Thread Kyle Williams
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com>wrote: > But ISTM that small, optimized, hardened little VMs would be ideal - > additionally protecting anonymity; perhaps reasonably allowing the use > of JS on your browser within your browser VM. > Agreed. > > > Your post

Re: More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu

2009-08-24 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Ringo wrote: > I would appreciate any feedback people have on this. This is just an > idea and it's kind of beta, so don't use this unless you know what > you're doing. PGP key at bottom of message > > > > > More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Ma

Re: More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu

2009-08-23 Thread Jon Cosby
doing. PGP key at bottom of message > > > > > > > > > > More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu > > > > > I've been trying to get Tor/Privoxy to work on an openSUSE guest in > VirtualBox. I have the Tor and the Privoxy dae

Re: More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu

2009-08-23 Thread Jon Cosby
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 02:12 -0400, Ringo wrote: > I would appreciate any feedback people have on this. This is just an > idea and it's kind of beta, so don't use this unless you know what > you're doing. PGP key at bottom of message > > > > > More Secure

Re: More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu

2009-08-20 Thread coderman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Curious Kid wrote: > .. > How is entropy gathered in virtual machines? Will it tell you if there is not > enough entropy to support unpredictable routing and encryption? (Or is that > even an issue at all with Tor?) hi Curious, entropy in virtual machines can be

Re: More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu

2009-08-20 Thread Kyle Williams
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Curious Kid wrote: > Please excuse my extreme ignorance. > > > Even if an attacker were to be able to gain > > command-line access through a vulnerability in a program such as > > Firefox, they still wouldn't be able to obtain the user's IP address, > > look at th

Re: More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu

2009-08-20 Thread Curious Kid
Please excuse my extreme ignorance. > Even if an attacker were to be able to gain > command-line access through a vulnerability in a program such as > Firefox, they still wouldn't be able to obtain the user's IP address, > look at their file system, or gain access to any other > personally-identif

Re: More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu

2009-08-19 Thread Ringo
It's a good base > to start a project like what you describe, and is what we've been working on > (quietly) for some time now. :) > https://www.torproject.org/torvm/ > http://www.janusvm.com/tor_vm/ > > > - Kyle > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Ringo <

Re: More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu

2009-08-18 Thread Kyle Williams
This is just an > idea and it's kind of beta, so don't use this unless you know what > you're doing. PGP key at bottom of message > > > > > More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu > > Whenever somebody uses the internet through Tor using

More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu

2009-08-18 Thread Ringo
I would appreciate any feedback people have on this. This is just an idea and it's kind of beta, so don't use this unless you know what you're doing. PGP key at bottom of message More Secure Tor Browsing Through A Virtual Machine in Ubuntu Whenever somebody uses the internet th