Talk:HOWTO Anonymity with Tor and Privoxy

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[edit] Using tor to anonymize the soulseek filesharing protocol

This is really quite straightforward, given the excellent HOWTO, but I think it might make sense to spell this out explicitly.

Start socat to redirect connections to localhost:22400 to 38.115.131.131:2240 using tor on port 9050 as SOCKS4A proxy:

   socat TCP4-LISTEN:22400,fork SOCKS4A:localhost:38.115.131.131:2240,socksport=9050

with tor it says that im banned when i try for an irc chat @ irc.freenode.net, thanks guys who ruin it for the rest of us!

[edit] Isn't using Gaim with Tor like giving away one's PW?

If people use Tor for instant messaging, wouldn't that enable others to get IM users' log-in names and passwords?

I am a non-techie. When I read derangedsecurity.com, I got the impression that logging in to anything using Tor means that whoever runs Tor exit nodes can (with some extra effort) read one's log-in information, so even if one were to set up a bogus account just for non-sensitive instant messaging with or without Tor, one could never be sure that nobody else will use that account in the future. Please enlighten me. 14:43, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] tsocks patch

There is a patch for the tsocks library in portage to use Tor for DNS resolution. This will allow one to resolve *.onion address inside programs using torify, like irssi. It also is an important part of remaining anonymous with Tor.

    euse -E tordns
    emerge -av tsocks

I don't remember this breaking anything but I suppose that a revdep-rebuild couldn't hurt.