[tor-talk] torsocks is broken and unmaintained

[Ted Smith]

On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 19:49 +0000, adrelanos wrote:
> grarpamp:
> >> I'd like to see more discussion from more people here first, and see
> >> whether somebody steps up to say, "Yeah, I can maintain that" here, or
> >> whether somebody else who knows more than me about the issues has something
> >> to say.  Otherwise I don't know whether to write a "looking for maintainer"
> >> post, a "who wants to fork" post, a "don't use Torsocks, use XYZZY" post,
> >> or what.
> > 
> > I've been using torsocks for years. Some comments:
> > [...]
> > - It is not necessary given TransPort and DNSPort.
> > [...]
> 
> I don't agree. torsocks is still useful to prevent identity correlation
> through circuit sharing. Pushing all traffic through Trans- and DnsPort
> is not the answer.

Also, I don't want all of my applications using Tor -- just some of
them. Using Tails or TransPort wouldn't allow me to do this.
-- 
Sent from Ubuntu
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