On 11/05/2011 06:26 PM, Arturo Filastò wrote: > I have made a patch to check.torproject.org to expose a JSONP interface > that would allow people to have the user check client side if (s)he is > using Tor. > > This would allow people to embed a badge on their website > (privacybadge.html) that congratulates the user of using Tor or warns > him of non Tor usage with a link to torproject.org. > > I can imagine privacy advocates having this deployed on their websites > or systems that engourage users to connect to them anonymously. > > Compared to what check.torproject.org does at the moment the risk does > not change, it is erogating exactly the same service, just making it > more useful and flexible. > > Basically what it does is check if the ip doing the connection is > connected through Tor. The web service will reply with a JSON encoded > array that can be loaded from the user and display in the browser a nice > looking badge. >
I think this is a fine idea - it reminds me of the only IPv6 demo turtle. I think it's quite ironic to use these technologies to encourage people to deploy real privacy solutions. > You can see how this works on the live demo hosted here: > > http://hellais.github.com/torcheck/privacybadge.html I'd suggest that it have an onion and say "You're using Tor" or something similar - it might also make sense to put it in the web 2.0 web badge format that many companies use. > > I still need to finish the styling of the badge to contain links to > torproject.org and generally make it cooler. > > Also, the check.torproject repo should be moved to svn. > Isn't it already in svn? Shouldn't we move it to git? All the best, Jake _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
