What happened with the Tor USB Keychain idea?

Matt Thorne mlthorne at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 20:04:55 UTC 2005


I would be more than happy to help test/design this... although how good I 
would be at designing i don't know.
I am good at breaking things reliably... not at making them work.

 On 9/9/05, Arrakis Tor <arrakistor at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> Okay, great, we have linux tor on a USB keychain for $45...
> 
> Anyone interested in testing or helping me develop a USB image for
> Firefox/Tor/Privoxy, or Deer Park/Tor?
> 
> This should be a 1 hour project, i think, if we can get deerpark alpha
> 2 portable version... else we have to resort to the damn privoxy...
> 
> The advantage is you don't have to run an OS, it is completely
> configed for windows, with autorun.inf interface, can fit on 32/64mb
> (?), runs firefox, and is free.
> 
> ST
> 
> 
> On 9/9/05, ADB <firefox-gen at walala.org> wrote:
> > Unless you specify in torrrc, it's going to save configs, keys, etc. to 
> the
> > local system, which is not good obviously! as for ease-of-use, does 
> Portable
> > Firefox, etc. do a complete RAW FS format of the memory card, or does it
> > just install by copying stuff to a folder or whatever? If it's the 
> former,
> > and the code is available, it wouldn't be that hard to come up w/ an FS
> > image with all that software on it. All you'd have to do would be to 
> install
> > the image to the USB stick, and there you'd be, pending a few config 
> tweaks
> > afterwards of course.
> >
> >
> > Bryan L. Fordham wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:29:53AM -0500, Arrakis Tor wrote:
> >
> >
> > I like the idea of the self-contained firefox and tor client on a
> > keychain. Did anyone discover if this would work? Is there a Deer Park
> > (outsourced DNS) firefox that is mobile yet?
> >
> > I got portable firefox, and installed the regular version of tor 
> (windows)
> > onto the thumbdrive. Worked fine, as far as I could tell. I never paid 
> much
> > attention to what, if anything, tor saved in user settings or whatever.
> >
> > --B
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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