On 07/03/2015 02:36 PM, Lars Luthman wrote: > On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 14:30 -0600, Mirimir wrote: >> On 07/03/2015 02:16 PM, mtsio wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> Is it safe to open pdf documents inside Tor Browser? >> >> As other have said, it is NOT safe to do that, because PDFs can bypass >> Tor. However, it IS safe to open PDFs in Whonix, because all >> Internet-bound traffic either uses Tor, or is black-holed. > > Can PDF.js bypass Tor? How? I thought it used the same networking code > and proxy settings as the rest of Firefox.
Maybe so. But without firewall rules, there's risk. There's also risk of downloading the PDF, and opening it with another app. -- 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