Finally: Tor on Android W/O Rooting!

Nathan Freitas nathan at freitas.net
Sun Nov 7 06:54:37 UTC 2010


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The latest beta of Firefox 4 on Android (and Maemo) is quite nice. You
can get it here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/

However, it is lacking the ability to even manually set proxy settings
through any sort of usable interface. Android also lacks the ability to
set system wide proxy settings, which has been a real problem with
getting Orbot (aka "Tor on Android") working for normal users.

I have taken the first step towards porting TorButton to Firefox on
Android, and created a very simple add-on which exposes the proxy
settings. This means you can use Orbot on Android 2.x devices and route
your web traffic through it without needing to root your device! Also,
since I know understand how Firefox mobile add-ons are built, I can now
start engaging with Mike around a full port of TorButton. For now
though, if you are eager to play, you can find "proxymob" here:

https://guardianproject.info/downloads/proxymob-addon-0.0.5.xpi
https://guardianproject.info/downloads/proxymob-addon-0.0.5.xpi.asc

Source is here:
https://github.com/guardianproject/ProxyMob

+nathan


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