[tor-talk] Vidalia+Tor separtely from TBB`s Firefox

Greg Kalitnikoff kalitnikoff at privatdemail.net
Fri Jan 13 16:27:44 UTC 2012


Assumption: Modern linux distro. User A is default user. User Net and
group Net are the only ones who is allowed to go to the Internet with
iptables. User Tor is that which run TBB and he is in group Net.

Is it safe to run vidalia+tor as user Tor and "TB/App/Firefox/firefox
--no-remte -profile TBProfile" as default user A? Does it break some
security things? As I  understand so far from "The Design and
Implementation of the Tor Browser", the only thing it could break in
default behavior is "New identity" feature.

The reason for this is that I find very annoying and unproductive to
copy-paste links of my mailapp/im/rss-reader and want to use TBB`s
Firefox as default one.

P.S. Also reading https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/
I found this: "Filter-based addons such as AdBlock Plus, Request Policy,
Ghostery, Priv3, and Sharemenot are to be avoided." But here
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2011-November/022052.html
we see Andrew Lewman`s "In my world, I'd replace noscript with
requestpolicy". I`m a bit confused :-/

-- 
Greg


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