On 02.03.2012 00:12, proper proper wrote: > You ask the user not to use Bittorrent over Tor, as the network can not handle the load. The problem is that Bittorrent opens a lot of concurrent connections to download many pieces at once. And all those "Tweak your Torrent client and get mighty mighty speed" add to that. The second reason to avoid Bittorrent over Tor is that there is no audited torrent client. There is none because of the first reason. There have been studies about various torrent clients leaking information directly leading to the deanonymization of users (IIRC the packets contained local interface IPs), and Tor cannot stop an application from doing that. But, yes, in general it holds that the Tor network could use more relays. >> Operating system updates over Tor are the main reason that >> transparent proxying is not recommended -- automatic update > installers are likely to leak information about the software they are > trying to update, whether due to malicious design or due to lack of > consideration for users' location privacy. Everyone has a "customized" operating system. Windows users not so much because Microsoft's greatest failure was to never add package management. Still, knowing about the updates itself is already a risk for your anonymity. Ideally, all Tor users would use the exact same version of some static operating system like TAILS, and update all at once. > If someone were to promote an easy-to-use per-configured anonymous > torified operating system TAILS? -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/
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