[Fedora-spins] Privacy Spin

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>> Please elaborate on what "privacy", "tor" and "privoxy" can do, and how 
>> it justifies a separate spin rather then becoming a or even the de-facto 
>> default for all spins (I can't imagine these things take up so much 
>> space on a disc that it can't combine with other spins).
> 
> So, Tor and Privoxy work together to annonymise your internet usage by
> forwarding your internet communications through a random series of
> peers, also encrypting it along the way. This prevents certain forms of
> traffic analysis from being able to determine what websites you are
> visiting, as well prevents website from being able to record your
> originating IP address etc. It is also a superb way for those suffering
> from censorship to get around this and view the content of blocked
> pages. Check out http://www.torproject.org/ for better details. 
> 
> I wouldn't recommend they be installed and enabled by default on any
> system as the use of multiple proxies seriously slows down network
> access.
> 
> It requires a little bit of configuration as it is currently packaged in
> Fedora, requiring you to edit a text file for privoxy's configuration
> and also to configure Firefox and your other internet facing
> applications to use the proxy. Firefox can be done automatically with
> the Tor Button extension, which I would suggest we install and use by
> default in any spin of this sort. Other applications will require their
> settings changed. 
> 
> We could extend this spin to include other tools, similar to what the Polippix disc did in Denmark. 
> 
> Hope that answers your questions, but let me know if not and I'll try and do a better job :p
> 

It does answer my questions, thanks ;-)

-Jeroen