What happened with the Tor USB Keychain idea?

ADB firefox-gen at walala.org
Fri Sep 9 20:08:22 UTC 2005


So is this Win32 specific binaries, or does it utilize some kind of Damn 
Small Linux like distro?
~Andrew

Arrakis Tor wrote:

>Okay, great, we have linux tor on a USB keychain for $45...
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>Anyone interested in testing or helping me develop a USB image for
>Firefox/Tor/Privoxy, or Deer Park/Tor?
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>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...
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>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.
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>ST
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>On 9/9/05, ADB <firefox-gen at walala.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Bryan L. Fordham wrote: 
>> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:29:53AM -0500, Arrakis Tor wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>>--B
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