[tor-talk] Tor as a network filter

[Yuri]

On 02/08/2015 01:29, spencerone at openmailbox.org wrote:
>
> 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?

No, tor doesn't filter anything. Tor is rather like router. It routes 
your traffic through the network of its own, and helps make you 
anonymous in your activities on the net.

>
>>
>> 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?

Whonix gateway is built to pipe network traffic from OS in VM into the 
tor network. So the whole OS is on tor this way. I thought that's what 
you was asking.

> Awesome, thanks for being so cool : )

You welcome! -)

Yuri