<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>The "Are you using Tor?" page at http://check.torproject.org/ sometimes tells me that I am not using Tor, even with Tor and Torbutton running. It has only done that soon after starting Tor and the browser.<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Luis Maceira <luis_a_maceira@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> or-talk@seul.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 3, 2008 2:15:27 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Firefox,Torbutton leaks real IP Address.<br></font><br>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" valign="top"><p>The combination Firefox-3.0.3(in fact,Iceweasel-3.0.3),Torbutton-1.2.0 leaks my real IP</p><p>address.This happens BETWEEN when I initiate Tor-0.2.0.31 with the bash command </p><p>/usr/local/tor/bin/tor and the moment when Tor effectively establishes a connection-circuit.</p><p>This can be 60 seconds or more,and if in between we connect to the Internet with</p><p>Firefox-Torbutton the real IP address is used(even with torbutton running-green)</p><p>I tested with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.showmyip.com">www.showmyip.com</a> and others.My fear is if the same could happen when Tor changes circuit by ten-ten minutes or so,when leaves the previous circuit to the next one.(what happens
in the transition moments).I did not test that situation.</p><p></p><p> Thanks. </p></td></tr></tbody></table><br>
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