[vidalia-users] Do OSX apps phoning home compromise the anonymity of my firefox/TorButton session?

[phobos at rootme.org]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:06:48PM -0500, rakavbm at mac.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 18 lines about:
: 
: the nomenclature here, but I noticed via Little Snitch that a bunch of apps
: (dotmacsyncclient, filesyncagent, pubsubagent) are constantly phoning home
: while I'm running Tor/Vidalia/Firefox/TorButton and it's safe to assume that
: my real identity is revealed in those communications. My question is, do
: those share a connection with my Firefox session? Obviously that would be no
: good and I'm hoping to hear that I'd need to specifically point an
: application to Tor in order for it to share a port and/or connection with
: the browser I want to stay anonymous on, but all these "Allow TCP
: connections to port 80 (http)" in Little Snitches Rules list give me
: concern. Thanks in advance.

If I understand what you're asking, Tor doesn't phone home.  vidalia
does geoip lookups to map the relays to the network map over tor; so
it's anonymous.

in theory, you should be able to block all other apps and just allow tor
through the firewall.

-- 
Andrew