On 28/02/15 08:28, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
I have not yet investigated the tor network, but as "ransomeware" has become more prolific, with the bad-guys demanding payment via anonymous tor sites and bitcoin, it is probably time to understand WTF it is. (a colleague running M$ was hit today) Are there different tor browsers available, or is torproject basically it.
Also, if anyone has a favorite link explaining the nuts and bolts of the tor quagmire, I welcome that as well. At first blush, it looks like tor navigation is basically what internet nav was prior to http (circa 1988). Just looking for a reference. Will start with wikipedia and go from there.
Castration is too good for these ransomeware weasels.
David, TOR is actually Firefox but (the latest Tor) is Firefox 31.x. It matters not which version of openSUSE you are running - Tor is for any version of oS (I have it installed on 13.2 and TW). I installed it a couple of days ago and if you download the latest version it will update itself to version 4.0.x. Being a Firefox user since year dot and having all sorts of Extensions installed in Firefox (v35.0) I thought of installing the same Extensions in TOR. Don't. Stay with what Tor has when you 'install' it. Reason is that some of the Extensions/Addons in Firefox may actually give away your identity. For example, there is a setting in Firefox re Privacy which has the option to let sites know if you want or do not want to be traced. The TOR default setting is TELL SITES NOTHING. The only change I made to Tor is to install my preferred Appearance Addon (I always use Nautipolis) - but everything else was left as it was when I 'installed' Tor. As Tor admits Tor is slower than the normal Firefox so don't get frustrated when you start using Tor. To find out the reason for the slowness read the FAQ on the Tor site. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.4 & kernel 3.19.0-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org