[tor-talk] how to stream videos using Tor

[Aymeric Vitte]

There are two reasons right now why Peersm can not work with the Tor 
Browser, and the two reasons are linked: minimum release of FF should be 
26, indexedDB storage must be activated (and working correctly). FF 
version for Tor Browser is 24 and indexedDB is deactivated in the Tor 
Browser.

We are going to modify a few things so it works with the Tor Browser 
(partially, you won't still be able to store data but you will be able 
to stream when Mozilla has implemented [1] and the Tor Browser has the 
corresponding FF version, so unfortunately not tomorrow despite of the 
fact tha Mozilla is actively working on it)

Anyway, it's not advised to use the Tor Browser for Peersm app since the 
Tor protocol is inside the browser and the threat model is completely 
different from the Tor Browser since Peersm app is fecthing data, not 
browsing.

Using Peersm with the Tor Browser will make that the Peersm Tor protocol 
websocket connections are proxied to Tor instead of reaching directly a 
Tor/Peersm bridge, so performances will be uselessly impacted.

The only "risk" not using the Tor Browser is that we know your IP 
address when you load the code, that's one of the reasons why there will 
be a standalone version of Peersm (see [2] but it's not finished, no 
technical difficulties, just a lack of time, another one being that for 
technical reasons we can not use https to load the code, see [3] to know 
why).

Now, if you feel more comfortable, you can proxy the latest versions of 
FF or Chrome to Tor as explained in [4]


[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617
[2] https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor/tree/master/min
[3 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917829
[4] http://www.peersm.com/?use-en

Le 22/06/2014 19:39, nobody a écrit :
> It is still not possible to use this app with the newest TBB. I think it
> is because TBB uses FF 24.6.0
>
> Aymeric Vitte:
>> Le 03/06/2014 16:29, nobody a écrit :
>>> The website doesn't work for me. Javascript is completely enabled but I
>>> can't insert any links or clicking on stream/download/upload.
>> These are demo buttons and input for links on the web site, only "click
>> here to use it" button works and redirect you to the app, maybe we
>> should change/clarify this.
>>
>>> Also http://peersm.com/peersm is complete blank.
>> Yes, thanks to advise, there was an unfortunate (and forgotten) end of
>> May deadline for some old testing purposes, it's corrected.
>>
>>> I use the TBB 3.6.1-Linux
>>>
>>>
>>> Aymeric Vitte:
>>>> You can use Peersm http://www.peersm.com (see the streaming demo video
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVaE8UZzDlA and the starter links
>>>> http://www.peersm.com/?links-en) to stream/download anonymously from
>>>> Peersm or bittorrent networks or the web.
>>>>
>>>> Even if not recommended for "normal" use you can use the TBB with Peersm
>>>> (I don't know what's the current FF version of the official TBB, you
>>>> need FF>=26 for Peersm, if not see http://www.peersm.com/?use-en)
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Aymeric
>>>>
>>>> Le 26/05/2014 07:06, John Henry a écrit :
>>>>> I cannot stream videos using my Tor browser and I wondered if anyone
>>>>> could
>>>>> explain how that can be done.

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