On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 4:17 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Soul Plane:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 8:19 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Soul Plane:
> >>> I tried Tails 1.0.1 and started Iceweasel. I went to the website
> >>> https://www.whatismyip.com and Iceweasel showed an information bar
> that
> >>> said "foxyproxy prevented a site from changing foxyproxy's
> >> configuration".
> >>> There was an allow button but I didn't click it. Since then I haven't
> >> seen
> >>> that message. Is that normal?
> >>
> >> I failed to reproduce that same problem by only entering the homepage of
> >> whatismyip.com.
> >>
> >> - Did you do any thing else on the website?
> >> - Does this happens all the time?
> >> - Does this happens on a fresh install of Tails?
> >>
> >
> > I did not do anything else on the website. I cannot reproduce. I am using
> > Tails from the live CD. Is there any reason why I would see that message?
>
> Weird. Then maybe that time you used a malicious exit node:
>
> https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/warning/#index1h1
>
> If you ever face this issue again, please try to see from the Vidalia
> network map [1] which exit node you were using and send that information
> to us.
>
> [1]: https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/vidalia/
>
>

Ok. But what is the attack? If a malicious exit node changes my foxyproxy
what happens? It can get my real address?
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