RE: reporter from The Economist in Thailand seeks help / new Tor guide is up

["Chris Willis" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have to add a bit to this one:

NO browser (cept maybe a text browser in BSD or something) is really
100% safe on its own.  Firefox has lots of vulnerabilities, just like
IE.

That is why you use privoxy with Tor.  http://www.privoxy.org/

If you use IE 7, you can start IE 7 with Add-ons disabled.  No flash,
java, etc...  Combine that with Privoxy AND Tor, and you should be doing
reasonably well.  Is it safe?  No.  Only text browsers could qualify as
safe.

I actually like browsing with add-ons disabled as a rule of thumb, not a
special practice with TOR.  It makes my surfing experience much nicer :)


Chris



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Tim McCormack
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:50 AM
To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: reporter from The Economist in Thailand seeks help / new
Tor guide is up

Enigma wrote:
> If someone can provide those with the same settings which are 
> described in the text below the pictures, feel free to mail them to
me.

http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO#MozillaFirefo
x

...and people shouldn't be using Internet Explorer with Tor. It just
isn't safe.

 - Tim McCormack