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Re: Chrome and Safari IP leak

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Subject: Re: Chrome and Safari IP leak
From: Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:06:21 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 05:12:57PM +0100, Karsten N. wrote:
> a warning for using Google Chrome, Safari or other Webkit based browsers
> with Tor. Because of a bug in the FTP proxy settings user can
> deanonymized by FTP links.
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> May be, Torproject.org can blog a warning for Tor users too.

Let me be even broader: if you want to be safe, you must never use Tor
with any browser except Firefox, and you must also use Torbutton. If
you don't do both, you can lose from a wide variety of application-level
attacks.

See also
https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning

--Roger

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