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Idea
#9419: Add Tor to the repository
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Written by Eldmannen the 3 Jun 08 at 12:09.
Category: Others.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Tor (The Onion Router) is a free software implementation of second-generation onion routing – a system enabling its users to communicate anonymously on the Internet. Originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Laboratory, Tor became an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) project in late 2004.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
* https://www.torproject.org/
Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location.
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andersja wrote on the 3 Jun 08 at 16:58
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sudo aptitude install tor
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Eldmannen wrote on the 3 Jun 08 at 18:30
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I am sorry.
You're right, its there.
Prior to posting this idea, and I made a check, but didn't find it.
I now see it in Synaptic.
$ dpkg -l "tor"
No packages found matching tor.
Didn't find it with dpkg...
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confessor wrote on the 4 Jun 08 at 04:18
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because you didn't use the right command, how about for example:
$ apt-cache search ^tor$
tor - anonymizing overlay network for TCP
Pity so many people voted this up AFTER I commented that it's already in the repo (btw since dapper) hehe...
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BUGabundo wrote on the 4 Jun 08 at 07:49
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i dint know tor was back.
it was removed, after the autors asked it to, because the version in the repositories usually gets quite out of date, so they prefer for users to use the one on the official site.
dont know what changed....
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tebibyte wrote on the 11 Jun 08 at 20:43
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Tor is insecure according to:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2181922,00.asp
"ToR Used to Snatch Embassy Passwords"
"It has long been known that ToR is vulnerable to what are known as correlation attacks carried out by attackers watching both ends of a user's connection."
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jonasbjork wrote on the 7 Aug 08 at 18:58
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This should be marked as "already implemented".
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Bug #237048