Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-17 Thread Dan Hughes
--- On Mon, 12/11/12, and...@torproject.is and...@torproject.is wrote: The first question you asked is: Does TBB write user content to disk? The answer to the first question is no, it uses ram cache only. And so most people would think does setting disk cache to 0 on bog standard Firefox,

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-17 Thread Julian Yon
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:24:35 + (GMT) Dan Hughes danhughes...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The question of swap files and hibernation raised by someone else is pretty fundamental. It's pointless and misleading just talking pedantically about disk cache as it doesn't matter to the user exactly what

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-17 Thread unknown
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:19:56 + Dan Hughes danhughes...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hello, Does browsing with TBB installed on the HD or a USB stick and downloading files (.PDFs, SM vids etc.;)) to a USB stick (but not opening online) result in the content of what's browsed or downloaded

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-17 Thread Webmaster
Your last line of but some things need an understanding of more fundamental concepts before they make sense. Should be Followed with the other line you used: ...this is not under the control of the Tor Browser. Sorry I couldn't resist :) On 11/17/2012 10:25 AM, Julian Yon wrote: On

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-17 Thread Julian Yon
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:39:19 -0500 Webmaster webmas...@felononline.info wrote: Your last line of but some things need an understanding of more fundamental concepts before they make sense. Should be Followed with the other line you used: ...this is not under the control of the Tor

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-17 Thread Dan Hughes
--- On Sat, 17/11/12, Julian Yon jul...@yon.org.uk wrote: Tor Browser doesn't write anything sensitive to permanent storage. What your OS does is not under the control of the Tor Browser. -- TBB design document -

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-17 Thread andrew
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:20:46AM +, danhughes...@yahoo.co.uk wrote 2.1K bytes in 48 lines about: : Thanks also to anonymous for that link about temp files - another example not covered by just no, that your Human Rights activist with cr*p going on in their life, or ordinary person for

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-12 Thread andrew
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 05:21:34AM +, danhughes...@yahoo.co.uk wrote 1.3K bytes in 29 lines about: : Thanks, but I'm still a little unclear. You say no- it's basically the TBB workings, but it seems an open question atm? So is there anything else apart from disk cache ...swap files..flash

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-12 Thread k e bera
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:20:20 + and...@torproject.is wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 05:21:34AM +, danhughes...@yahoo.co.uk wrote 1.3K bytes in 29 lines about: : Thanks, but I'm still a little unclear. You say no- it's basically the TBB workings, but it seems an open question atm? So

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-12 Thread grarpamp
But don't some LIveCDs write to swap space on the local hard drive IF they see one? I can't speak to that, it's certainly a possible default. People have some irrational fears of disabling swap. Just because you see swap used in top doesn't mean you need it. So long as you have enough ram just

[tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-11 Thread Dan Hughes
Hello, Does browsing with TBB installed on the HD or a USB stick and downloading files (.PDFs, SM vids etc.;)) to a USB stick (but not opening online) result in the content of what's browsed or downloaded being written to the HD at all? If TBB does leave 'content evidence' on the HD, other

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-11 Thread Greg Norcie
If you're on a Live CD, everything should stay in the RAM, unless you really jump through hoops to write to the HD. In that case (barring a cold boot attack, which is far fetched), any data you downloaded will be gone. On a normal PC anything saved or opened is stored on the HD though. Live CDs

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-11 Thread Adrian Crenshaw
But don't some LIveCDs write to swap space on the local hard drive IF they see one? Adrian On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Greg Norcie g...@norcie.com wrote: If you're on a Live CD, everything should stay in the RAM, unless you really jump through hoops to write to the HD. In that case

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:19:56 + (GMT) Dan Hughes danhughes...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Does browsing with TBB installed on the HD or a USB stick and downloading files (.PDFs, SM vids etc.;)) to a USB stick (but not opening online) result in the content of what's browsed or downloaded being