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

[Dsoslglece]

phobos at rootme.org a écrit :
> 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.
>
>   
Hi...
Normally, the only thing to be allowed through LittleSnitch, is this :

</Applications/Vidalia.app => /usr/bin/Tor>  to enter into LS (Vidalia 
via Tor).

The rest seems to care for itself.
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