On 02/28/2015 05:56 AM, Peter wrote:
It's worth bearing in mind that the thousands of individuals and institutions that provide exit nodes or other reinforcements of the Tor network (at their own expense and sometimes risk of having their equipment seized) often do so in consideration of those needing it due to free speech restrictions or getting a voice out from danger zones. Hence, if too many people use it for high bandwidth content such as media downloads for leisure purposes, it doesn't help those most desperately in need.
Peter
Peter, Basil, Lew, All, Thanks, The torproject.org has essentially the same information and more regarding good practices/warning in the warnings section of their download link: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en#warning One of the main issues they stress is, if you are browsing with the Tor browser, DO NOT torrent over Tor or open/access documents downloaded from remote sites --and-- related, DO NOT install plugins to handle remote download content, because torrent, and in many cases opening the remote downloads or allowing them to be handled by plugin will ignore/bypass proxy settings which impacts both your and others anonymity by disclosing direct IP information. Now, linux apparently has a solution for most of that as well. If complete anonymity is of concern, the torproject site provides a link to the 'tails' project which is a standalone OS where the plugin and remote doc handling communication layers are apparently designed to go over Tor rather than there being a potential for direct IP exposure. That's well beyond anything I can foresee being concerned with, but for sake of completeness, it's worth a mention. Regarding install, I'll check packman, but the package can be built from source as long as you have libevent, libevent-devel installed. The torproject provides a pre-compiled install for both x86 and x86_64, but I'd rather build it on my current system that deal with any potential library version/soname issues. (even though software should be smart enough to handle it today) I've tried webpin, but the 3-char tor name is too short to provide any matches. If it is not on packman, does anyone have a 13.1 .spec file (or one for a reasonably close release I can cannibalize)? I would prefer to build the rpm rather than doing a make install to /usr/bin or /bin, and being lazy, I would prefer not to have to roll a .spec from scratch. If anyone has a link to a 13.1 package, I'd appreciate it. Thanks again. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org