Re: Making package.el talk over Tor

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > No, url.el eventually calls `make-network-process', that directly
  > invokes the respective networking system calls, not making it possible
  > to interject torsocks.

Is this the code you mean?

		      (open-network-stream
		       name buffer host service
		       :type gw-method
		       ;; Use non-blocking socket if we can.
		       :nowait (and (featurep 'make-network-process)
                                    (url-asynchronous url-current-object)
                                    '(:nowait t)))

How can I make that use TOR?

I could set `url-gateway-method' to specify some other method, but
what other value would make it possible to put in torsocks?

  > What I believe Akib meant was to start Emacs
  > with torsocks,

I think that is no good -- all subprocesses of Emacs would be
compelled to use torsocks too.

  >  because one will continue to leak fingerprintable
  > metadata (specially inside of Emacs)

Could you give me an example of what you mean?

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