Arrakis wrote:
It appears that Java attacks for causing external IP data to be leaked can be mitigated to some good degree. The upshot is that you can now run Java applets that even when attempting to phone home directly (revealing your IP), they are routed through the socks port and thus Tor or any other socks speaking application. What we are doing is changing the proxy settings of the Java Control Panel in windows.
Some time ago, I conducted several tests that demonstrated that Java Applets have the ability to disregard proxy settings in the Java Control and open direct non-proxied connections. I do not think what you have described will work.
-James