Yes, I meant Evince Document Viewer. And about the built-in pdf reader, that vitually solves the issue.
If a suggestion might be accepted, a description, or a mention, to the built-in reader in the TBB welcome page, might be useful to newbies. By the way, applies the same to the already downloaded pdf docs ? Lluís Spain On 10/16/2014 01:13 PM, Andrew Roffey wrote: > Lluís wrote: >> In the web page here: >> >> https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en#warning >> >> advises us not to "... open documents downloaded through Tor while >> online" >> >> Many technical manuals and scientific papers are written in pdf >> format, and I usually read them. > > The reason for this is that offline applications can leak information > outside of Tor. If the file downloaded contained an identifier unique to > your Tor connection, and an application outside of that Tor connection > leaked the identifier, then it would breach anonymity. > > For example, if you downloaded a HTML page as a file and an image > contained a unique ID this could occur. > > To answer your question (or not really): > >> Is it safe to download them with TBB first and then open them with, >> say, "Document Viewer" ? >> >> Where can I find more information about it ? > > I'm not sure whether Evince (I'm assuming this is what you're referring > to) leaks information, e.g. downloading of external resources. > > By the way, Tails solves this problem by forcing all applications to go > through Tor. > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
