The Doctor writes: > On 07/02/2014 04:18 PM, Helder Ribeiro wrote: > > > Apps like Pocket (http://getpocket.com/) work as a "read it later" > > queue, downloading things for offline reading. While you're reading > > an offline article, you can also follow links and click to add them > > to your queue. They'll be fetched when you're online so you can > > read them later. > > I've been using the Firefox extension called Scrapbook > (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbook/) for this > for a while now. I've done some experiments with it (packet sniffing > at the firewall and on the machine in question), and from observation > it seems sufficiently proxy-compliant that it routes all traffic in > question through Tor when it downloads and stores a local copy of a > page. Secondary opinions are, of course, welcome and encouraged.
That's great, but in the context of this thread I would want to imagine a future-generation version that does a much better job of hiding who is downloading which pages -- by high-latency mixing, like an anonymous remailer chain. The existing Tor network can't directly support this use case very well, except by acting as a transport. Right now, people who are using toolks like Pocket or Scrapbook over Tor _aren't_ really getting the privacy benefits that in principle their not-needing-to-read-it-right-this-second could be offering. That is, a global-enough adversary can sometimes notice that person X has just downloaded item Y for offline reading. There's no reason that the adversary has to be able to do that. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- 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