Re: [tor-talk] Am I successfully using Torsocks, SSH, and a VPS? Please advise, thanks!

Hi On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:58 PM, wrote: > Please see below for my response to your helpful comments. > > On 2016-08-08 11:18, Ben Tasker wrote: > >> If you're using Firefox, one thing you want to consider is DNS leakage. >> >> If you go into about:config, see whether

Re: [tor-talk] Am I successfully using Torsocks, SSH, and a VPS? Please advise, thanks!

Please see below for my response to your helpful comments. On 2016-08-08 11:18, Ben Tasker wrote: If you're using Firefox, one thing you want to consider is DNS leakage. If you go into about:config, see whether network.proxy.socks_remote_dns exists. If not create it and set to True. Without

Re: [tor-talk] Am I successfully using Torsocks, SSH, and a VPS? Please advise, thanks!

> I do not know if the same issue of identity linkability can arise with a VPN service. Depends on a few things including whether the account can be linked to you in some way. Also depends on whether the service keeps logs, and there's no way to tell whether claims they don't are true. Over

Re: [tor-talk] Am I successfully using Torsocks, SSH, and a VPS? Please advise, thanks!

2016-08-08 17:19 GMT+02:00 : > There was a discussion of the same issue recently in > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-July/041721.html . Ben > Tasker is right, if the VPS is registered in your name, you is not > anonymous. Even if the VPS is not linked to

Re: [tor-talk] Am I successfully using Torsocks, SSH, and a VPS? Please advise, thanks!

On 08.08.16 13:55, blo...@openmailbox.org wrote: I, like many other uses of Tor, have become increasingly frustrated with sites like Craigslist which discriminate against Tor. It makes these sites hard to use. I therefore decided to discover if it is possible to use Tor but end up with a

Re: [tor-talk] Am I successfully using Torsocks, SSH, and a VPS? Please advise, thanks!

If you're using Firefox, one thing you want to consider is DNS leakage. If you go into about:config, see whether network.proxy.socks_remote_dns exists. If not create it and set to True. Without that, DNS won't use the tunnel. As you've got a VPN running it'll likely egress from the VPN endpoint

[tor-talk] Am I successfully using Torsocks, SSH, and a VPS? Please advise, thanks!

I, like many other uses of Tor, have become increasingly frustrated with sites like Craigslist which discriminate against Tor. It makes these sites hard to use. I therefore decided to discover if it is possible to use Tor but end up with a non-Tor IP. I use Torsocks to login to a VPS server