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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Max Kristen <max@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So you are saying it is possible to implement a setting, to enable all
> phone traffic to go through tor? This would be an amazing feature, and
> very distinct from all other platforms.

That’s not exactly what I said.
Tor exposes a socks proxy which applications can connect to to route
their traffic through it. Applications need to use the system proxy
settings for this to work though, if an application chooses to ignore
the proxy settings, its traffic won’t go through tor.
As far as the browser is concerned, it is already proxy-aware (modulo
the bug I mentioned earlier, which should be easy enough to address).
Other applications may need to be made proxy-aware.


> Am Montag, den 14.12.2015, 13:49 +0100 schrieb Olivier Tilloy:
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>> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Mark <j.m.holmes@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>         I want
>>         to congratulate people on the recent developments within the browser.
>>         For political reasons I've started taking privacy seriously. I wonder if
>>         Tor (I know they're closed source) could be persuaded to work with your
>>         browser as they did with Firefox?
>>
>>
>> Tor is open-source, and available in ubuntu. Making it work with
>> webbrowser-app on a phone should just be a matter of installing the
>> tor package (the device will need to be made writeable) and setting
>> the correct environment variables to use localhost:9050 as a socks
>> proxy.
>>
>>
>> In theory this should be enough. In practice it looks like there’s a
>> bug in oxide (the web engine that powers webbrowser-app) that prevents
>> it from correctly using the socks proxy.
>> See https://launchpad.net/bugs/1525883.
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>>
>>  Olivier
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