Torora: a lightweight cross-platform browser for dedicated use with Tor
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Torora is a lightweight cross-platform browser for dedicated anonymous browsing with Tor.
As a dedicated Tor browser, Torora provides explicit state separation for the user. This means they cannot fall into the trap of mixing anonymous and non-anonymous browsing with the same application. Torora prevents the user from browsing until it has verified the presence of a working Tor installation. Torora disables/modifies all browser behaviour that may allow the user to leak information to remote eavesdroppers. The Torora project includes a patch for webkit that allows users to enable javascript while protecting against common javascript-based profiling attacks.
Torsocks
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Torsocks allows you to use most socks-friendly applications in a safe way with Tor. It ensures that DNS requests are handled safely and explicitly rejects UDP traffic from the application you’re using.
Once you have installed torsocks, just launch it like so:
usewithtor [application]
So, for example you can use ssh to a some.ssh.com by doing:
usewithtor ssh username @ some.ssh.com
Wireshark Dissector: Tor Protocol
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View and analyze Tor traffic in Wireshark. It should be useful for researchers analyzing the behaviour of various versions of the Tor client. This patchset will not allow you to decrypt the traffic of an Onion Router (i.e. a relay node on the Tor network), only the traffic coming to and from the Tor client on your machine (i.e. an Onion Proxy). Doing the former would require a different patch to Tor and apart from being unethical might even be illegal in your jurisdiction! (You would be snooping on the traffic of other Tor users.)
Anonymity Anywhere
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‘Anonymity Anywhere’ is a CD that allows you to browse, blog, email and chat in complete anonymity wherever you happen to be. Simply find a computer, insert the CD, boot from it and start working anonymously.
‘Anonymity Anywhere’ is part of my project, TorK, mentioned below.
TorK - An Anonymity Manager for KDE
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This is my most active project at the moment. TorK is an Anonymity Manager for the KDE Desktop. Browse anonymously on Konqueror/Firefox/Opera. Send anonymous email via the MixMinion network. Use ssh/irc/IM anonymously. Control and monitor your anonymous traffic on the Tor network.
Tor is a software application that allows you to anonymize your activity on the internet. For a full description of what Tor does, see here . TorK allows you to configure, run and update Tor. It makes anonymizing your internet use easier. It also allows you to view the Tor network and choose how you would like to interact with the network.
KlamAV - A KDE Anti-Virus Manager
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My stab at an anti-virus manager for KDE. It sits on top of the ClamAV scanning engine and provides a number of useful features such as scheduled updates, automatic upgrades, on-access scanning, manual scanning, scheduled scanning, virus research, event logging, quarantine management and integration with KMail, KDE’s mail client. It received a number of nice write-ups in online and print media - as well as an approving nod from the ClamAV founder, Tomasz Kojm. It is a default component in Mandriva 2006 (a popular Linux distribution) and is packaged by a number of others, including Kubuntu. Follow the link for more details.

V3 - An Atonement
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This turned out quite well in the end. It’s a series of obituaries (ha!) linked together by … oh just print it out if you’re curious. The scene-setting is almost as convoluted as Corlis’ Purga - but it’s much more readable, by dint of the fact that it’s much shorter. The PDF in the link below was the one I used to create photocopies for binding - so not ideal for online browsing. The finished article itself is remarkably genick - so if you want a copy send me a postal order to cover postage and packing and I’ll send one out to you. Only a few left mind.
PDF of V3 - An Atonement
Read V3 - An Atonement Online



Corlis’ Purga
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This is a commentary on the ‘Purga’, a fragment of verse by an ancient Euxian poet, Corlis. Neither exist of course. A patent cure for insomnia if ever there was one.
Read Corlis’ Purga Online
PDF of Corlis’ Purga


The Dramatic Function of Antilabe In Greek Tragedy
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Antilabe (an-ti-la-bey) is a device in Greek tragedy where a line of verse is split between two or more speakers. Doesn’t happen very often, so seemed like a good idea for my M.Litt thesis. How many words can you possibly devote to something so obscure? Oh, just the 80,0000.





