[Noisebridge-discuss] Transparent Tor-ification

[Jonathan Lassoff]

Excerpts from Sai Emrys's message of Wed Mar 17 03:29:38 -0700 2010:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
> > Please note if you're looking for true anonymity, this setup wont give
> > you that. Here are some points of failure I can think of off the top of
> > my head...
> 
> You missed that you can leak data (with DNS, javascript, headers, etc)
> despite using Tor, the outgoing Tor server could sniff your
> unencrypted traffic, the NSA could set up a bunch of high-availability
> Tor servers and own you end to end, ....

I've modified the system to include privoxy now. So, traffic flows like
so:

* Tor subnet * <-> torbridge on pony <-> iptables redirection <-> privoxy <-> tor <-> * Onion routing happens here *

Cheers,
jof