[tor-talk] Tor as a network filter

[spencerone at openmailbox.org]

>> SpencerOne spencerone[at]openmailbox.org:
>> Can Tor be used as a system-wide network filter?
>> 
> Yuri yuri[at]rawbw.com:
> This is a good question.
> 
> Tor by default doesn't work on the level of network interfaces, it 
> works
> on proxy level: SOCKS proxy and Trans proxy. Part of the reason why it
> was made this way is that it doesn't support UDP, or any other protocol
> except TCP.
> 

Awesome, the Transport Layer, right?  But couldn't things on the 
Application Layer be filtered through Tor before they make it to the 
Network Layer?  Isn't that what's happening with things like Orbot?  
Aren't applications proxied using SOCKS or HTTP, essentially having Tor 
filter things before being passed over a network?

> 
> However, there is the Whonix gateway (https://www.whonix.org/) that you
> can run as a virtual machine, and you can connect any other OS running
> in another VM to it.
> 

Is there any risk to this [Whonix on a VM] like with Tails, or is Whonix 
built to function this way?

> 
> This will be very close to what you have asked: it
> will work as a tor filter for that OS. But any programs depending on 
> UDP
> (like skype) will not work.
> 
> Yuri
> 

Awesome, thanks for being so cool : )

Wordlife,
SpencerOne