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 -- Mike Gerwitz Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05 https://mikegerwitz.com
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