Whitedust article, Tor USB Product

ADB firefox-gen at walala.org
Thu Dec 15 20:18:55 UTC 2005


Cool. Any timetables for any of that yet?


The domain Phoenixoflight.org is for sale! 
<http://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?tracked=&partnerid=19673&language=us&domain=PHOENIXOFLIGHT.ORG> 



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>Hello ADB,
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>I  use  his.  John  contacted me recently and wanted to make a special
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>maybe if he gets back together with me on the specifics we can produce
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>Thursday, December 15, 2005, 12:09:33 AM, you wrote:
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>>Yeah that thing. Do you just use his packaged binaries for
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>>Matt Thorne wrote:
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>>it is called Portable firefox. it is made by John Haller, and can be
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>>He knows.
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>>On 12/14/05, ADB <firefox-gen at walala.org> wrote: 
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>>No but what about that project that is compact FF and TB by itself, out of
>>the context of Tor entirely? I don't even know if the developers of that
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>>but I can't. I think they post updates on majorgeeks.com though.
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>>Arrakistor wrote:
>>Hello ADB, 
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>>Torpark IS the self-contained usb thing with Firefox and 
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>>Thunderbird, 
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>>at least thunderbird should be expected within the next few 
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>>And the latest version was released less than a month ago I 
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>>I'm building another version very soon, if I can get some more 
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>>from programmers. I should also have a Tor firefox plugin available 
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>>the future as well.
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>>Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 9:32:08 PM, you 
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>>Some would argue that it's just the free market doing it's 
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>>entrepreneur is cashing in ;D. What's the name of 
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>>'USB-stick' Thurnderbird and Firefox? I can't 
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>>Arrakis, do you need help with TorPark? If so, I'd be willing to chipin, at
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>>~ADB 
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>>Thedomain Phoenixoflight.org is for sale! 
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>>Void Beast wrote: 
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>>-----BEGINPGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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>>Indeed it would... Paying for privacy? I don't think that's quiteright.
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>>It would be quite easy to build on of these yourself and place iton
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>>flashcard, digital camera or what have you.  Make it a weekendproject.
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>>-m 
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>>On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, ADB wrote: 
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>>An associated article on OSNews points to a new tor-basedembedded 
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>>Linux-on-USB-stick product called  Tor Desktop: VirtualPrivacy 
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>>Machine 
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>>(http://www.virtualprivacymachine.com/products.html).It 
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>>sellsfor $45, 
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>>and this might be a convenient option for some 
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>>reconfigure.
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>>~ADB 
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