On 12/04, James Marshall wrote: > Is there any risk with another local application using Tor's SOCKS 5 > interface? I heard a vague comment that it wasn't recommended, but I > haven't heard exactly what the risks are, if any.
How else would any application access the Tor network? This is exactly how, e.g., Firefox in the Tor Browser Bundle works -- by pointing it at Tor's SOCKS5 proxy. If you want to use additional applications, you might edit torrc so that Tor listens on additional ports. IIUC, each one of those will build/use separate circuits. I don't remember where but I recall coming across suggestions to do just that -- use different ports -- for various applications (e.g. one port for your browser, a different port for your mail client, yet another for an IRC client, and so on). -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk