From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: , emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: flag to use tor
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:59:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ima4tnvp.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ketIz-0008Np-C3@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:13:25 -0500")
>>>>> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
> ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
> ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's
> example. ]]]
> Many Emacs commands connect to internet sites for various reasons.
> vc does so, M-x irc does so, and I don't know how much else.
> I want to connect through Tor all the time, but sometimes these
> commands betray me. I added a switch to VC to make it connect
> through Tor always, but it would be good to have a facility that
> would do this to all internet connections that Emacs packages
> make.
> Some packages connect directly in Lisp. and some connect by
> running subprocesses. For the subprocesses, using 'torsocks' is
> an easy fix. The hard part is to change all the packages that
> need fixing.
> A super-simple approach is to have a switch with two settings:
> Tor, or not Tor. A more complex feature would give a systematic
> way to specify exceptions.
> What do people think?
I run tor and then launch an xterm using proxychains using
proxychains /usr/bin/xterm <RET>.
I have
socks4 127.0.0.1 9050
in my ~/.proxychains.conf. This ensures that proxychains uses tor. I then
launch emacs in the xterm as a gui or with '-nw'.
Best wishes,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-17 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-17 5:13 flag to use tor Richard Stallman
2020-11-17 5:30 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-17 6:31 ` Max Zettlmeißl
2020-11-17 7:59 ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2020-11-17 8:34 ` Colin Baxter
2020-11-17 12:43 ` Zhu Zihao
2020-11-21 5:04 ` Richard Stallman
2020-11-23 9:33 ` Robert Pluim
2020-11-24 5:53 ` Richard Stallman
2020-11-22 16:01 ` Tomas Hlavaty
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