[tor-talk] HTML5 video and Tor anonymity.

David Vorick david.vorick at gmail.com
Wed May 1 19:29:58 UTC 2013


I don't know what I'm talking about, but here goes:

If you were to put flash in a "sandbox" that had a fake IP address, might
that make the sandbox incompatible with the tor network? When you are
communicating, even over the tor network, your IP address is critical so
that servers on the other end know where to send messages. That means that
at the very least you have to know your own IP address. If the flash
sandbox had a false address, the network might reject communication
altogether, or it might simply be unable to return the messages to the
right spot.

Am I incorrect?


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Andrew F <andrewfriedman101 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks noel,
> Is there a way to "sandbox"  flash and make it safe?
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Noel David Torres Taño <
> envite at rolamasao.org
> > wrote:
>
> > On Martes, 30 de abril de 2013 19:00:20 andrew wrote:
> > > Leo,
> > > Would be possible to run flash video in a VM to isolate it?
> >
> > Hi Andrew
> >
> > Issue is not isolation from other processes, issue is that the Flash
> player
> > might communicate your IP and other data to some third party (who may be
> > the
> > video host service or not)
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Noel
> > er Envite
> > -------------------------
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> > Q: Why is top posting bad?
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