Re: [tor-talk] wget - secure?

[Matthew Kaufman <mkfmncom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Thanks for these config settings, Does it also leak if I use:

torify wget http://example.com

?

Is this what torify does?

On Saturday, May 26, 2012, wrote:

> Hi,
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: helpfulnoob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Subject: [tor-talk] wget - secure?
> Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 18:39:04 -0400
>
> > Hi again :)
> >
> > >On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 17:15, Robert Ransom <rransom.8774 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >>On 2012-04-18, Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>The underlying point is that it would be neat if
> > >>you've done a comprehensive analysis of a specific version of Tor,
> > >>etc., etc.
> >
> > >No, the underlying point is that I have personally seen wget send my
> > >computer's IP address over Tor in an FTP PORT command.  wget is not
> > >‘100% safe’.
> > >
> > >The code to send a PORT command is still present in wget 1.13.4.  wget
> > >1.13.4 is not ‘100% safe’; anyone who wants to recommend it needs to
> > >specify a particular configuration of wget which is safe.  (Don't
> > >count on a ‘default configuration’; Linux distributors might have
> > >messed with it, or failed to update it to the version shipped in
> > >recent wget source distributions.)
> >
> > Hi there Robert Randsom, thanks for such good info. Can you please point
> me to documents, or directions, to test FTP PORT command with my setup:
> Wget 1.13.4  (openssl 1.0.0g), Privoxy v3.0.19, , and Wireshark 1.6.8, on
> Windows 7 x64 Home Premium  SP1?
> >
> > I want to test what you write, and so far I tried 'host IPadress' [1],
> at a FreeBSD FTP server [2], but I didn't know what to look for; am I on
> the right track? For now, I close port 21 on my computer, when using Wget;
> is that good enough for now?
> >
> > I look to see if there's a way to disable FTP, but nope, and that's
> probally showing my noobiesness, ha. Anyway, if I can help I'm happy to be
> helpful, so, drop me a line! :)
> >
> > Here's how I started Wget:
> >
> > wget -c --no-parent ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>
>
> I forgot to add the settings for Wget, but they're big, and they're in
> another message I sent the list, the Tor specific settings for Wget are in
> wgetrc.txt and are:
> use_proxy = on
> http_proxy = http://127.0.0.1:8118/
>
> However, I added other settings to my wgetrc, they'll be in the other
> message. Sorry!
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