On 07/03/2014 04:16 PM, Seth David Schoen wrote: > The Doctor writes: > >> On 07/02/2014 04:18 PM, Helder Ribeiro wrote: >> >>> Apps like Pocket (http://getpocket.com/) work as a "read it later" >>> queue, downloading things for offline reading. While you're reading >>> an offline article, you can also follow links and click to add them >>> to your queue. They'll be fetched when you're online so you can >>> read them later. >> >> I've been using the Firefox extension called Scrapbook >> (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbook/) for this >> for a while now. I've done some experiments with it (packet sniffing >> at the firewall and on the machine in question), and from observation >> it seems sufficiently proxy-compliant that it routes all traffic in >> question through Tor when it downloads and stores a local copy of a >> page. Secondary opinions are, of course, welcome and encouraged. > > That's great, but in the context of this thread I would want to imagine > a future-generation version that does a much better job of hiding who > is downloading which pages -- by high-latency mixing, like an > anonymous remailer chain.
One can imagine a browser extension that introduced random delay at each step of getting a page. Webservers tend to drop very slow clients, as defense against slow-loris DoS, so the extension would need to learn the limits for each site. > The existing Tor network can't directly support this use case very > well, except by acting as a transport. The ability to switch circuits during the process of getting a page would help greatly. > Right now, people who are using toolks like Pocket or Scrapbook over Tor > _aren't_ really getting the privacy benefits that in principle their > not-needing-to-read-it-right-this-second could be offering. That is, > a global-enough adversary can sometimes notice that person X has just > downloaded item Y for offline reading. There's no reason that the > adversary has to be able to do that. > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
