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1. Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2016 06:29:06 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

   • Computer and Network Security
   • tor
   • firefox
   • Christopher M. Hobbs
   Using !Tor without #TorBrowser makes you vulnerable to DNS request leaks, and other nasties. I've seen this using #Thunderbird, which is just awful (ie. leaky) for all sorts of things (POP3, SMTP, IMAP, extensions). Not all data for every layer escapes, but there's enough leakage that anonymity is compromised. #TorBirdy is a Thunderbird plugin to reduce that kind of leakage. See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy TorBrowser has added !security hardening to !Firefox to minimize vulnerabilities; if you're going to the trouble of using Tor you may as well use TorBrowser since that's no extra effort.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2016 13:45:44 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠

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     @bobjonkman I use #Tor with #Thunderbird because I just want to contribute some noise. Any actual browsing is done in the Tor browser, which is a separate connection altogether.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2016 13:46:05 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • MMN-o ✅⃠
     @bobjonkman Will look at #TorBirdy though!