[email protected] writes: > Hey :) > > I have been looking at a physical product by Cryptographi called the > 'SnoopSafe Encrypted VPN/TOR Router'[0]. > > Does this work? Is this safe? > > [0] http://cryptographi.com/products/snoopsafe
There have been a number of discussions on this mailing list before about standalone Tor routers. The usual consensus is that using a separate router together with regular Internet applications is risky, because the applications don't know that they shouldn't behave in certain ways. For example, the applications might mention your real IP address in the course of some protocol, or they might send or allow to be sent a persistent cookie, which might eventually be sent over both a Torified and a non-Torified connection. The Tor Browser has had a ton of work put into it https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ to try to make sure it works safely with Tor (again, by making all Tor Browser instances look alike, making sure that they don't allow long-lived cookies or cookie equivalents, and various other precautions). The router running as a separate device can't usefully apply all of these protections to regular Internet applications "from the outside", and the applications, again, won't realize that they're being used in an anonymous way and that they shouldn't send data that might compromise their user's anonymity. That's why the Tor Project doesn't currently recommend using Tor with a web browser other than Tor Browser, and that's something that would inevitably happen when using one of these standalone routers. -- Seth Schoen <[email protected]> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
