[tor-talk] JonDo uses Tor v0.2.3.25 SocksPort but not for v0.2.4.20-v0.2.4.23; why?

Joe Btfsplk joebtfsplk at gmx.com
Sat Aug 2 18:30:39 UTC 2014


On 8/2/2014 12:48 PM, Mirimir wrote:
> I've been playing with JAP/JonDo routed through Tor. The JonDo client
> has a SOCKS proxy option, and it works well with Tor v0.2.3.25
> SocksPorts in Ubuntu 14.04.1 x64. I installed Tor from the Ubuntu 12.04
> repository, by the way.
>
> After upgrading Tor to v0.2.4.20, which is default in Ubuntu 14.04, the
> JonDo client can no longer use Tor SocksPorts. Upgrading Tor to the
> latest v0.2.4.23 doesn't restore that functionality.
>
> Please share insight. I'm guessing that a security fix in Tor, or in
> libraries that it uses, has broken something about how the JonDo client
> uses SOCKS proxies.
>
Other than just playing / testing, if going to use Tor *network* anyway, 
what might be the advantage of using vanilla Firefox w/ the JonDo 
profile (extension) rather than Torbrowser?  Just asking.

Seems Torbrowser w/ Torbutton & all other customizations to Fx, it is 
modified to be more anonymous & safer than even Firefox using the JonDo 
extension.



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