Silk Road forums
Support => Technical support => Topic started by: anonypunk on April 30, 2013, 05:36 am
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More specifically - within Tor - while here or on the Road.
Suggestions and thoughts with regards to safety and and potential data gathering by those in the know encouraged.
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Depends on the goal I'm trying to accomplish. As far in SR I use and block them off and on.
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More specifically - within Tor - while here or on the Road.
Suggestions and thoughts with regards to safety and and potential data gathering by those in the know encouraged.
I would recommend that you do not use scripts when browsing, neither here nor on Silk Road itself. Scripts have the potential to take away your anonymity, and if you can easily prevent that from happening, you should.
Libertas
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I block scripts but there is a funny sound when I first go to a site -anyone else hear that sound?
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More specifically - within Tor - while here or on the Road.
Suggestions and thoughts with regards to safety and and potential data gathering by those in the know encouraged.
I would recommend that you do not use scripts when browsing, neither here nor on Silk Road itself. Scripts have the potential to take away your anonymity, and if you can easily prevent that from happening, you should.
Libertas
Thank you. That's the answer I was looking for.
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There is no danger in allowing scripts for Silk Road, the forums, and trusted sites like MtGox or Bitstamp.
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There is no danger in allowing scripts for Silk Road, the forums, and trusted sites like MtGox or Bitstamp.
You should not be trusting ANY site not to run dodgy scripts.
Libertas
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TorBrowser is pretty well protected, even with NoScript disabled. You can read the details of what they try to protect against here:
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/
Increasingly, it's not just JavaScript. HTML5 and CSS3 bring lots of great new features to the web, but some of them threaten your anonymity. As time goes on, this will only get worse. So it's not enough to block JavaScript anymore. That's why TorBrowser is more than a torified Firefox, it gets lots of patches to protect you against all kinds of leaks, and it's important to use TorBrowser rather trying to torify other browsers.
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If you're worried about security and privacy there is something more power full you can do. Run tor in a middle box, and use linux.
Buy running A virtual machine(VM) with everything forced over Tor or dropped you will be able to run any soft ware you would like.
You can install any OS in the VM, I prefer linux mint but ANY os will do, but the host OS must be linux! This tutorial is based on debian.
As far as im concerned this is the ONLY secure and trusted way to access via tor.
http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-a-tor-middlebox-routing-all-virtualbox-virtual-machine-traffic-over-the-tor-network
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I'm getting into web design right now (very basic atm), I have started looking at how we can develop for tor, optimization for image loading etc, and obviously keeping anonymous and other aspects involved in making the end user experience more enjoyable for myself and for others!
I realised when looking into going fully anon that I had made quite a few newbie mistakes, but with nothing illegal or harmful involved it was relatively safe. Always thinking is what I am about to do safe!
I had been running scripts since I first started messing with Tor but before coming to SR, now I just have then turned of all of the time. Truly anon services that have been designed for to keep anon in mind and are relativley safe to use with tor straight out of the box I think.
Stay safe and have fun SR
Thanks
(I'm)Real (and it's) Brand New
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There is no danger in allowing scripts for Silk Road, the forums, and trusted sites like MtGox or Bitstamp.
The TOR project strongly advises against using custom noscript rules because it can give you a unique fingerprint and you won't blend in with as many people :
Disabling JavaScript by default,then allowing a few websites to run scripts, is especially bad for your anonymity: the set of websites which you allow to run scripts is very likely to uniquely identify your browser.
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-May/024227.html
So either forbid scripts globally or allow them globally. You can use whonix to safely run scripts and even flash though, it's like what danny666 said except it runs out of the box pretty much.
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If you're worried about security and privacy there is something more power full you can do. Run tor in a middle box, and use linux.
This. If you are worried about your softwares security, don't give it a chance to cheat you out of your anonymity. Built a firewall that forces all traffic through Tor.
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Most users should probably just leave it default.