[guardian-dev] Adafruit’s Onion Pi Tor Proxy Project Creates A Private, Portable Wi-Fi Access Point

[Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb]

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On 21 Jun 2013, at 06:38, Nathan of Guardian wrote:

> On 06/21/2013 01:19 AM, c1.devrandom at niftybox.net wrote:
>> Seems like you would lose a bunch of the anonymity features if you don't
>> use the Tor browser.  Just setting up a proxy is not enough.  You want
>> to block flash/scripts and close off other info leak points.
> 
> This is that same as "transproxy all" with Orbot. The goal is not
> anonymity really, but more defeating local network provider traffic
> surveillance and logging, especially if it is associated with your real
> name ID tied to your subscription, plan, etc.


I was thinking about this also.

Not that its a "simple" solution but could you not use the Tor browser (installed on your client machine) and set the proxy address, instead of local address, to the address of the Onion Pi box?

Would that not be the same as using a local install of Tor?

Thanks,
Bernard

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