now that i think about it, the case of occasionally not wanting to have tor running is not often. the main fear is in the user forgetting to disable it.
On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 11:05:45 AM UTC-7, pixel fairy wrote: > > theres the issue of tor safety, when sometimes your in a bad place, but > not always. > i was also thinking of resource usage while sys-whonix is just sitting > there. but, its > pretty light so probably doesnt matter much. > > On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 10:47:22 AM UTC-7, Marek > Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 09:55:08AM -0700, pixel fairy wrote: >> > in 3.2-rc3 sys-whonix is started at boot, and has backups enabled. >> neither >> > are needed. >> > >> > starting a connection to tor might be bad in some places, so its better >> to >> > make sure the user wants to start that whenever they use it. >> >> During first startup it will ask you whether you want to connect to Tor >> directly. If you want, you can also disable autostart of that VM, but in >> most cases it will be simply more convenient (faster startup of >> Whonix-related VMs). And if you live in censored area, you'll probably >> need to setup bridges anyway. >> >> As for backups, you're probably right, but lets wait for Patrick's >> confirmation. >> >> - -- >> Best Regards, >> Marek Marczykowski-Górecki >> Invisible Things Lab >> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. >> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v2 >> >> iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXxxgeAAoJENuP0xzK19csCvcIAJmegvBaR3hWPp/Occjo6WqR >> 9lEYn8vT/q4ZMrKzRiWBncAml8asAEzbvFdTKYOLWass8y6vhTUWBofRF9vVqrhH >> NGSP6hqhB27vRfWcIyPB3APf31XvQv3bOkDBTysjjwqYS2nZvtpulHOBwAes5sdx >> LM3IxdFxp9AQSDl+Hv6zWjUT9oxdpvRo5u3KzJKSTc71SsKWv+N3olUVzvE/KCIf >> 8C3rl2CGWThhNO0a51NW4NyOGJaD9k7/2PU9bY2gGHb5JUJ1rx9SbDGT+Sb06zOy >> JlW1jmUmR64t0jo5+G/ThtlM5q/CN+wOvw+FpPqoQVvcQE/30h2Vlyg3R/R0Hnc= >> =SHpI >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/98b86c24-225a-49ff-b6ff-b2cf8a356438%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
