[XCSSA] AntiTor, Opera and Tor, FreeNode

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On 26/08/09 16:22, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
>  I liked all the things about the Onion Router already said. I will
> add some things:
>     1. latest tor source code is moved to git repo:
>     http://git.torproject.net/
See my reply to 2

>     2. Opera browser is known to have a bug in its proxy settings that
> might compromise anonymity for users especially visiting a site whose
> admin knows how to exploit that opera bug...

You should not be running Opera as it is closed source and has not
been evaluated for pitfalls and anonimity leaks. You should be using
only one of the following:

https://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/
https://www.torproject.org/torvm/

The TBB (the first link) is much better as the browser is separated
completely from your normal browser, which may also be firefox. It
is using the most "normal" appearing configuration known to be
possible. If you have a non-standard anything like user agent or do
not request the expected favicon or javascript or anything like
that, your usage patterns become unique. The second link is neat but
not really recommended. Many people recommend the usage of the
RequestPolicy plugin for firefox.


>     3. Using tor is fine, running tor NON exit node is fine, probably
> running a tor bridge relay is fine too, but my dream was to have a tor
> exit node 

Access to freenode via tor is sometimes temporarily blocked due to
abuse. However, users can still access freenode using gpg-tor. If
still banned, you can contact the email address displayed when you
attempt to connect.

-- 
-torAdvocate


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