Re: [tor-talk] Is using player like VLC safe alternative to Flash?

2013-05-08 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 07.05.2013 19:51, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Question of playing Flash vids comes up constantly explanation given of why it can compromise anonymity in Tor Browser. Additionally to what Tom Ritter wrote: If you want to be safe, convert the .flv to a real video format first. I would say a toolchain

Re: [tor-talk] Is using player like VLC safe alternative to Flash?

2013-05-08 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/7/2013 8:46 PM, Tom Ritter wrote: VLC has a lot of stuff going on inside of it. I would not be surprised if there were proxy leaks that might be able to be forced by someone doing something tricky. Say you enter a url to a flash video and the content is intercepted and replaced with an

Re: [tor-talk] Is using player like VLC safe alternative to Flash?

2013-05-08 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 08.05.2013 10:58, Moritz Bartl wrote: Question of playing Flash vids comes up constantly explanation given of why it can compromise anonymity in Tor Browser. Additionally to what Tom Ritter wrote: If you want to be safe, convert the .flv to a real video format first. I would say a

[tor-talk] Is using player like VLC safe alternative to Flash?

2013-05-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Question of playing Flash vids comes up constantly explanation given of why it can compromise anonymity in Tor Browser. Anyone done real investigation if using some media players, that handle playing Flash content directly from a URL, are any better at protecting anonymity than Flash Player?

Re: [tor-talk] Is using player like VLC safe alternative to Flash?

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Ritter
VLC has a lot of stuff going on inside of it. I would not be surprised if there were proxy leaks that might be able to be forced by someone doing something tricky. Say you enter a url to a flash video and the content is intercepted and replaced with an RTSP stream that VLC somehow interprets,