Hi, -------- Original Message -------- From: helpfuln...@safe-mail.net Apparently from: tor-talk-boun...@lists.torproject.org To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-talk] wget - secure? Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 18:39:04 -0400
> Hi again :) > > >On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 17:15, Robert Ransom <rransom.8774 at gmail.com> > >wrote: > > > >>On 2012-04-18, Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>The underlying point is that it would be neat if > >>you've done a comprehensive analysis of a specific version of Tor, > >>etc., etc. > > >No, the underlying point is that I have personally seen wget send my > >computer's IP address over Tor in an FTP PORT command. wget is not > >‘100% safe’. > > > >The code to send a PORT command is still present in wget 1.13.4. wget > >1.13.4 is not ‘100% safe’; anyone who wants to recommend it needs to > >specify a particular configuration of wget which is safe. (Don't > >count on a ‘default configuration’; Linux distributors might have > >messed with it, or failed to update it to the version shipped in > >recent wget source distributions.) > > Hi there Robert Randsom, thanks for such good info. Can you please point me > to documents, or directions, to test FTP PORT command with my setup: Wget > 1.13.4 (openssl 1.0.0g), Privoxy v3.0.19, , and Wireshark 1.6.8, on Windows > 7 x64 Home Premium SP1? > > I want to test what you write, and so far I tried 'host IPadress' [1], at a > FreeBSD FTP server [2], but I didn't know what to look for; am I on the right > track? For now, I close port 21 on my computer, when using Wget; is that good > enough for now? > > I look to see if there's a way to disable FTP, but nope, and that's probally > showing my noobiesness, ha. Anyway, if I can help I'm happy to be helpful, > so, drop me a line! :) > > Here's how I started Wget: > > wget -c --no-parent ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ I forgot to add the settings for Wget, but they're big, and they're in another message I sent the list, the Tor specific settings for Wget are in wgetrc.txt and are: use_proxy = on http_proxy = http://127.0.0.1:8118/ However, I added other settings to my wgetrc, they'll be in the other message. Sorry! _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
