[tor-talk] Anonymity of RSS readers

[Nathan Freitas]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014, at 07:49 AM, Christian Stadelmann wrote:

> b) using Tor

> This is a bad idea too since I regularly fetch some hundred
RSS/Atom

> files, some of them via unencrypted HTTP. This would clearly
undermine

> all anonymity provided by tor. This problem gets even worse
when the RSS

> reader loads content (e.g. images, JavaScript, ...) when
displaying the

> feeds.

>

> What can I do?



What about configuring Tor to use separate circuits for
different remote IPs:



In the SOCKSPort config, you can enable "IsolateDestAddr". If
your RSS app uses SOCKS, then this should work.



[1]https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en

References

1. https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en