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Re: [tor-talk] torsocks is broken and unmaintained



On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 18:12 -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> >> I don't agree. torsocks is still useful to prevent identity correlation
> >> through circuit sharing. Pushing all traffic through Trans- and DnsPort
> >> is not the answer.
> >
> > Also, I don't want all of my applications using Tor -- just some of
> > them. Using Tails or TransPort wouldn't allow me to do this.
> 
> Some people do run multiple Tor's, jails, packet
> filters, and apps. Largely to get around current
> Tor limitations. Those people don't have this
> singularity problem/position that you assume.
> Torsocks is not required in that instance.

This is a vastly higher barrier to entry than torsocks, that will lead
to fewer people using Tor for fewer things. 

As long as the Tor Browser is available as a standalone application, I
don't see why it wouldn't be okay to use torsocks and similar programs.
-- 
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