My Synopsis of thread for those less who know less geek stuff or whom are less inclined to trawl it, I will try to translate as simply as possible and remain concise if possible. Although part-geek, there are all manner of geeks, so bear in mind it is always possible I may misstate something.--Maxim Kammerer, the developer of Liberte Linux, claims that wget does not leak DNS requests and is a program safe enough to use with Tor. == Translation for the non-geek:DNS is a system on the internet which translates web addresses / URLs like http://www.google.com to the ip addresses by which computer's on the internet actually know each other.So; a DNS leak in the context of using the Tor network could mean that your computer has sent its genuine ip adddress to a DNS server instead of communicating with an anonymous DNS server through the Tor network, which isn't exactly smart. i.e. you just fucked up.wget then, is a utility for download of files from the Web. It supports http (downloading webpages), https (secure webpages), and ftp protocols (used for downloading normal files like pdfs etc), as well as retrieval through http proxies. wget is suspected of potentially leaking DNS requests.==Maxim says that this is not the case:"My tests show that wget does not leak DNS requests when HTTP(S)proxies are specified via environment variables."The next poster, coderman, suggets that Maxim could have made a mistake by setting the wrong environmental variables, which he implies is easy to do and suggests caveat emptor.== Translation for the non-geek:Some of the default settings in Liberte may or may not have been set correctly, so that while wget may not directly be to blame for a DNS leak, the operating system with which wget interacts may have been incorrectly configured. Maxim disagrees, coderman is leery.--Robert Ransom then asks specific questions of Maxim, esstentially implying that Maxim may be overlooking potential DNS leaks from wget because he is using using an incorrect configuration.--Maxim then feels that he is being second guessed by ransom and replies abruptly. He requests specific information that wget is to blame for potential DNS leaks. He believes that because wget does not use DNS to translate hostnames (a human readable address like http://www.blahblah.com where blahblah is the hostname) when connecting to proxies like the Tor ntework, such that wget should be secure against leaking your geninue ip address.== Translation: Maxim says no DNS request is ever made, so there can hardly be a leak. Aside:SSS, I think this is perhaps where our misunderstanding occured. The thread is aboug wget, but Maxim says that Midori resolves DNS requests when connecting through a proxy. However, this is not the point, since it does not mean there is a DNS leak merely because a DNS request is made so long as the DNS request is made via the Tor Network. What is important is that there is a DNS leak some place.--An anonymous poster suggets that an enemy could increase the likeihood of narrowing down a search for a Tor user, because the traffic from the Tor Browser Bundle and wget can be differeniated. i.e. using wget on the command line makes you more unique. I think other posters on SR have made similar points before, warning not to get 'too clever' with messing with your Tor configurations in case your Tor traffic behaves differently to the mainstream Tor traffic.--Joseph asks if Maxim has done a comprehensive aduit on the Tor package he's using in Liberte.--OP tries to use wireshark to work out if wget is making DNS requests directly to servers instead of through the Tor network.--Ondrej Mikle claims that wget does leak DNS requests, even when the enviromental variable that Maxim mentioned is set correctly.--Maxim questions this, he sees wget connecting to a proxy on his machine. There should be no DNS leaks.--Ondrej Mikle says that the DNS leak occured when using https, and there was no DNS leak with http. Perhaps another environment variable ought to be set.--Ondrej and OP disuss an alternative program called curl. OP decides to use curl instead of wget.--Javier Bassi says that wget 1.12 isn't leaking DNS requests for him.--Robert Ransom comes back and says "personally seen wget send mycomputer's IP address over Tor in an FTP PORT command. wget is not100% safe."--Maxim suggests that this behavior might have occured in a previous edition of Tails for Robert and restates that wget isn't an issue.-- End Thread To Date --Conclusion: Liberte's developer says wget is correctly configured with TOR for use with webpages and should not leak DNS requests. Another poster, Javier Bassi agrees that wget doesn't leak DNS requests. However several people in the thread believe his interpreation could be mistaken, e.g. Runa A. Sandvik, coderman, Robert Ransom.--> I would not use wget until this is hashed out.--> SSS, you had the impression that Midori is not safe to use. I'm not sure that is the case for the reasons mentioned before. I think Midori wasn't actually under suspicion for leaking DNS requests. I'll search the source code to check in case Midori happens to use the wget utility since I don't know whether it does or not (computer is slow, might take a while).