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From: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how can I use "tor"
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 09:33:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39dafe2e-d18e-2d4b-a295-fa130f403988@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9709CA1A-ACEF-40C8-9436-52F56B076AEB@lepiller.eu>


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Hi,

thanks for all Information, I am very happy.

Would it be  a little bit safer to have Icecat in a container?

If so, how to set it up?

and will Guix automatically upgrade it, when it's in a container?

Gottfried


Am 24.07.22 um 12:47 schrieb Julien Lepiller:
> Two issues:
> 
> First, the tor project is asking distros not to build the tor browser themselves. That includes Guix. That is because a build with Guix will make it distinguishable from the tor-browser built by the tor project.
> 
> Second, the tor-browser built by the tor project assumes FHS (/bir, /lib, etc) which guix doesn.t provide, so you can't run it directly.
> 
> Of course it's not great for anonymity since icecat is way more distinguishable than the tor-browser built by guix would be.
> 
> You could use different profiles in icecat, one with tor settings, one without. You can run icecat -P to select profiles.

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-07-25  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-21 17:49 how can I use "tor" Gottfried
2022-07-21 17:57 ` (
2022-07-21 20:35 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-07-22 14:57   ` Gottfried
2022-07-22 15:20     ` Julien Lepiller
2022-07-22 20:59       ` Csepp
2022-07-24 10:04       ` Gottfried
2022-07-24 10:13         ` Julien Lepiller
2022-07-24 10:20           ` Gottfried
2022-07-24 10:47             ` Julien Lepiller
2022-07-25  9:33               ` Gottfried [this message]

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