[tor-talk] pdf with tor
Tim Sammut
tim at teamsammut.com
Fri Jul 3 14:06:32 UTC 2015
Hi.
On 07/03/2015 09:43 PM, mtsio wrote:
> If you to Preferences->Applications->Portable Document Format there is
> the option 'Preview in Tor Browser' that opens the PDF without opening
> an external application. What's the problem with that?
I'd echo this advice from the TBB download page:
Don't open documents downloaded through Tor while online
The Tor Browser will warn you before automatically opening documents
that are handled by external applications. DO NOT IGNORE THIS
WARNING. You should be very careful when downloading documents via
Tor (especially DOC and PDF files) as these documents can contain
Internet resources that will be downloaded outside of Tor by the
application that opens them. This will reveal your non-Tor IP
address. If you must work with DOC and/or PDF files, we strongly
recommend either using a disconnected computer, downloading the free
VirtualBox and using it with a virtual machine image with networking
disabled, or using Tails. Under no circumstances is it safe to use
BitTorrent and Tor together, however.
https://www.torproject.org/download/download
hope you are well
tim
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