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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I successfully configured firefox to work with tor over polipo. |
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> And I successfully configured firefox to work with polipo without |
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> tor. |
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> But anything I tried to conveniently switch firefox to either use |
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> tor or not to tor ended up in ugly scripts, which switch config |
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> files for polipo and/or tor before killing tor/polipo process and |
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> restart new ones ended in mess and misbehaviour. |
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> I tried torbutton and read bad things of disappearing bookmarks |
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> when doing so. I tried foxproxy and read on the torbutton homepage, |
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> that this is not save. |
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> For unknown reasons, DNS calls leaked unencrypted when using tor. |
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> Something with socks seems not to work in/with firefox?!?!?!?! |
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> I am using firefox 3.5.7. |
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> My goal is to have ONE button to safely and securely switch between |
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> firefox with and without tor both with polipo. |
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> If someone know the ultimate solution or reason, why I am to |
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> [CENSORED] to manage this task; PLEASE HELP ME! :)))) |
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> Thank you very much in advance for any help! |
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> Best regards, |
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> mcc |
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I think the safest way it to use a different user, or a virtual |
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machine, with no access to outside networks, only access to the local |
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tor (which in turn is only able to access outside or proxy). And use a |
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tor-firefox and a non-tor-firefox. Trying to switch between |
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secure/insecure on the same browser with cookies, bookmarks, etc seems |
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too dangerous if you're really using tor for secure tasks. Even if |
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you're just trying for fun beware that you don't know who is spying on |
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your data. (encrypt everything) |
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Also be sure to disable things like phishing site warnings, similar |
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sites recommendations, etc; it causes queries to google/whoever about |
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your current page. |
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I tried Tor with firefox/torbutton/privoxy/noscript and it "seemed" to |
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work. It was so slow it would take a lot of patience to do anything, |
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trying to load the same page took several tries. It seemed like it can |
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only perform 1 network thread at a time. I don't know if it's a limit |
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of tor or privoxy or some configuration problem on my side. |
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