Some Tor w/ Firefox Questions
krishna e bera
keb at cyblings.on.ca
Sat Jan 3 17:38:22 UTC 2009
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:15:15PM +0100, sigi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:26:57AM -0500, Ringo Kamens wrote:
> >
> > 3. One of the common criticisms of NoScript+Tor is that a malicious exit
> > node can pretend to be any site it wishes. What about enabling js on
> > file:// urls? If I understand them correctly, the browser won't make any
> > external requests and then there would be no threat of an attack.
> >
>
> Here on my machine, browsing the web with tor and firefox is not
> possible, with addons noscript and torbutton enabled. I had to disable
> noscript to use the torbutton first.
>
> sigi.
As noted at https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/faq.html.en
you can use Torbutton instead of NoScript
for good anonymity and security with Tor and Firefox.
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