On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 11:45 -0600, aut...@anonymousbitcoinbook.com wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm writing a book about the use of Bitcoin and anonymity. A fair > portion of the book will be dedicated to teaching people how to most > safely use Tor to facilitate anonymity with Bitcoin. Are there any > special tips that people have for configuring Tor or using Tor when it > comes to Bitcoin? > > Right now, I'm recommending the use of a LiveCD Linux distro (Ubuntu) > with TorBundle for Linux and the vanilla Bitcoin client for Linux. A > couple tips I'm already aware of are to disable JavaScript before using > (since NoScript currently defaults to being on :() and to avoid > downloading files through the web browser such as PDF documents. > > In particular, I'm curious 1) if there needs to be special > configuration to ensure that all DNS request go through Tor, and 2) > whether I can configure the system not to send any internet message > except through the Tor proxy. > > Regards, > Kristov
You can use iptables to drop all traffic except for tor ports. Use appropriate rules for inside -> outside and outside -> inside. nmap would then come in handy as to port scan your system. But if your are serious about it, drop Ubuntu... the spaceboy is misbehaving for a long time now. Tails is something to be hacked on. -- Do not forget that we are cattle on an animal farm which is managed and handled mostly by machines. Machines do what they are/were told to. What lies in between stdin and stdout and is not shown in stderr? GPG: 0x48BE63E6 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk