Tor in Google Summer of Code 2014

Re:Tor in Google Summer of Code 2014 by nikcub on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @09:51PM (#7310023)

Tor isn't a browser, it is a network, app and protocol, the bundled browser is just one quick way to use it.

I use it with my normal Chrome browser.

    brew install tor

then setup a new user in Chrome and install the proxy switchysharp extension and add 127.0.0.1 9040 socks5 as a proxy.

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Re:Tor in Google Summer of Code 2014 by A_COMPUTER on Thursday February 27, 2014 @12:44AM (#7310587)

For web browsing, the bundle is the definitive, closest-to-actually-being-secure way to do it. Tor's FAQ explicitly calls what you're doing "a really bad idea." I'm too lazy to write down all the ways it is a bad idea, but I'll just summarize it to say that you can't make Chrome always use the proxy, and it's still possible in various ways for a site to induce Chrome to give up information about you.

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