The problem is not just this site https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO.
Rather it's a problem with the wiki itself, for example also https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/WebBrowsers is outdated. No Tor end user should torify Firefox anymore. Few reasons listed under https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBOX#thingsyoumustknow look under 'Tor Browser (TB)'. It is scaring how difficult it is to correctly configure an application (such as Firefox for use with Tor (TBB)). If you see it like this, end users really should stay away from to torifying software their self. They can not just torify Opera and think they are done. Torifying Thunderbird (with all important settings, plugins, addons, SSL, cookies, maybe some patches like needed for Firefox) is probable equally difficult like torifying Firefox. A high percentage of the wiki is outdated as not actively maintained by the original authors, the Tor Dev Team or anyone else. The wiki should be seen more as a reference for developers. Maybe there should be a warning at the top on each wiki site? There is no quality policy. Evil people could just add some bogus instructions on purpose. Anyone can edit and no one will check the changes in detail. End users seam not to be aware of that. Maybe like wikipedia there should be some sign like "last verified on x.x.x" and only trusted people could do that. Or "new version, click here to see last verified version from x.x.x.". The safest thing for end users right now would be to stick with TBB or Tails. I'll hope TorBOX https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBOX may become an alternative (no need to torify anything but potentially new TransparentProxyLeaks https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TransparentProxyLeaks. Torifying software for Tor end users is really dangerous (protocol leaks, more reasons already listed above). _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
