I recently set up the Tor/Privoxy package that puts the
little onion down on the taskbar.

I tested it and it seemed OK, just like previous
installations of the separate programs.

I'm using it with the latest Firefox.

I noticed that sometimes when activated as a proxy, the
little Privoxy logo stayed blue and didn't show the
clockwise rotational activity that signals the
Tor/Privoxy working properly.  Other times, it would be
green but also not showing the rotational activity.

Tonight I discovered that this package is
intermittantly NOT anonymizing and is passing the
originating IP to the site, and that it will NEVER
anonymize to certain sites!

I show that it's working and anonymizing properly when
I link to an IP test site, but whenI I went to
www.safe-mail.net, a high security webmail site in
Israel, the Privoxy signal doesn't go and webmail
posted from my account there=20

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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:04:43 -0600, Jack Blivins wrote in
Message-Id: <w4adnfFL6-WGNb7ZnZ2dnUVZ_vadnZ2d@teksavvy.com>:

Dear Jack/Charles/Eeelbash (Sigh),

> Tonight I discovered that this package is
> intermittantly NOT anonymizing and is passing the
> originating IP to the site, and that it will NEVER
> anonymize to certain sites!

Tor cannot work in the manner you descibe.  Your browser talks to
Privoxy, Privoxy talks to your Tor client and then your Tor client talks
to Tor servers.  Providing that chain of events happens, Tor either
works or it does not.  There is no scope for it to selectively bypass
all the Tor servers and dish up your IP address at a destination.
>
> I show that it's working and anonymizing properly when
> I link to an IP test site, but whenI I went to
> www.safe-mail.net, a high security webmail site in
> Israel, the Privoxy signal doesn't go and webmail
> posted from my account there=20

Have you got Javascript / Flash enabled?
Try loading the NoScript plugin for Firefox, it's excellent.

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From: Zax <flee...@bananasplit.info> writes:

> Tor cannot work in the manner you descibe.  Your
> browser talks to Privoxy, Privoxy talks to your
> Tor client and then your Tor client talks to Tor
> servers.  Providing that chain of events happens,
> Tor either works or it does not.  There is no scope
> for it to selectively bypass all the Tor servers
> and dish up your IP address at a destination.

Pay close attention:  That's EXACTLY what's happening.

I have no idea how www.safe-mail.net is doing it, but
they are blocking the function of Tor/Privoxy at my end.

I have been testing it for the past hour.

It is 100% consistent.

It is 100% "selective."

> Have you got Javascript / Flash enabled?

Initially I did, then turned it off.  It made no difference.

> Try loading the NoScript plugin for Firefox, it's excellent.

I just did.  It made no difference.  This site still defeats
Tor/Privoxy.  I do not know how.  All other sites I've tested
are processed normally.

Not to get utterly paranoid, but I was doing a bit of honeytrap
traffic on this Israeli site a while back, dummy encrypted
traffic to Gaza and Azerbaijan.

That may explain something -- or not.

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Zax <fleegle@bananasplit.info> wrote:
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> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:04:43 -0600, Jack Blivins wrote in
> Message-Id: <w4adnfFL6-WGNb7ZnZ2dnUVZ_vadnZ2d@teksavvy.com>:
>
> Dear Jack/Charles/Eeelbash (Sigh),
> 
>
> Tor cannot work in the manner you descibe.  Your browser talks to
> Privoxy, Privoxy talks to your Tor client and then your Tor client talks
> to Tor servers.  Providing that chain of events happens, Tor either
> works or it does not.  There is no scope for it to selectively bypass
> all the Tor servers and dish up your IP address at a destination.

Unless he hasn't selected Tor for SSL connections in Firefox. That would the
n
give the appearance of selectivly bypassing certain sites - those requiring 
SSL.

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In article <DW4TI5SU38800.1417939815@anonymous.poster>
Anonymous <Use-Author-Supplied-Address@[127.1]> wrote:
> 
>
> Pay close attention:  That's EXACTLY what's happening.

No, you pay close attention. safe-mail.net uses HTTPS. You only have proxyin
g
set up for HTTP. Set it up for HTTPS too and euphoria will be yours.

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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Anonymous <nobody@invalid.org> wrote:
>In article <DW4TI5SU38800.1417939815@anonymous.poster>
>Anonymous <Use-Author-Supplied-Address@[127.1]> wrote: 
>
>No, you pay close attention. safe-mail.net uses HTTPS. You only have proxyi
ng
>set up for HTTP. Set it up for HTTPS too and euphoria will be yours.

Save your breath. This is some kid who thinks he's busted TOR/Privoxy
"cheating", selectively sending IP numbers depite the fact that it's
technically impossible.

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