[AktiviX-discuss] Practical Security Advice for Campaigns and Activists

[Chris]

Hi

On Mon 21-Mar-2005 at 03:32:26PM +0000, Zak wrote:
> 
> It is -- Tor is basically the TCP/IP-level equivalent of
> anonymous remailers. The only unencrypted communication
> is that from the exit node to the real server (if the
> URL is not https://). Of course, this opens up the risk
> of a dodgy exit node manipulating your session in
> malicious ways... (anyone can set up an exit node,
> whereas for normal internet traffic, there are specific
> routers you would have to compromise to do this). 

Yeah, this is probably my biggest concern about it -- for
example editing the aktivix wiki via http and tor is
probably less secure than not using tor, however using
https and tor is good :-)

The Mozilla / Firefox proxy switcher is handy for setting
up multiple different proxy settings and switching between
then for different tasks:

  http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/switchproxy

Chris

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