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Living Room / Can someone help with my understanding of TOR (The Onion Router)?
« on: November 29, 2008, 09:02 AM »
Hi there all, i am a newbie on this forum. Can someone help me with this question please, if they know the answer? Thanks
When someone has TOR enabled (green "TOR Enabled" in the corner of the screen and combine that with Privoxy running in the background) does an IP address only appear anonymous on a browser level (for surfing the net) or does it anonymise your IP address on an application/software level too (such as using Roxio, WMP, MS Office, Bit Torrent Apps etc)
I log onto website www.cmyip.com and it does come up with an alternative one to the one my computer was given statically but i just wanted to know whether when TOR is enabled, it works for applications or just web surfing activity?
I would never use such an anonymiser for an application such as Bit Torrent because i heard how its considered bad form to use and hog the bandwidth of TOR in this way. My main enquiry is into asking whether regardless of all this, applications being used are anonymised just as much as browser internet pages
Thanks so much
D
UK
When someone has TOR enabled (green "TOR Enabled" in the corner of the screen and combine that with Privoxy running in the background) does an IP address only appear anonymous on a browser level (for surfing the net) or does it anonymise your IP address on an application/software level too (such as using Roxio, WMP, MS Office, Bit Torrent Apps etc)
I log onto website www.cmyip.com and it does come up with an alternative one to the one my computer was given statically but i just wanted to know whether when TOR is enabled, it works for applications or just web surfing activity?
I would never use such an anonymiser for an application such as Bit Torrent because i heard how its considered bad form to use and hog the bandwidth of TOR in this way. My main enquiry is into asking whether regardless of all this, applications being used are anonymised just as much as browser internet pages
Thanks so much
D
UK