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Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat
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Joshua Branson |
Subject: |
Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:58:40 -0500 |
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<address@hidden> writes:
> Yes, Tor plugin in Icecat 63 not works properly. I reported it to a developer
> through his website.
What developer? Can you link me to the bug report?
>
> There is one important thing that Tor plugin breaks. If you look at
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Tor#Firefox there are lines you should configure
> in
> about:config page in Icecat
> network.proxy.socks_remote_dns true
> network.dns.disablePrefetch true
> network.dns.disableIPv6 true
>
> So plugin resets 'network.proxy.socks_remote_dns' to 'false' every time it
> runs and every time you start Icecat having tor plugin is activated. And this
> is
> why ISP performs dns requests.
>
> Jan 7, 2019, 2:02 AM by address@hidden:
>
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 15:09:51 -0500, Joshua Branson wrote:
>
> Now, when you start icecat, you may have to click on the tor plugin to
> activate it, but it normally autostarts for me.
>
> Also, at least for me, that doesn't configure my browser to access tor
> hidden services. But it does run all of your http traffic through the
> tor network, which is pretty cool.
>
> That's concerning to me: it seems to imply that DNS requests are _not_
> being proxied through Tor, which could leak very sensitive information
> to your ISP and other parties.
>
> I use FoxyProxy Standard[0] (just by habit over the many years I've used
> Tor with Firefox), so I hadn't tried the Addon distributed with
> Icecat. FoxyProxy has an option to proxy DNS requests through Tor (and
> does so by default IIRC).
>
> [0]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/FoxyProxy_Standard
>
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