Comments on: Using the android browser with tor or any socks proxy & privoxy http://www.inputoutput.io/using-the-android-browser-with-tor-or-any-socks-proxy-privoxy/ The free-thinkin' free-speakin' rabble-rousin' geek. Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rolando http://www.inputoutput.io/using-the-android-browser-with-tor-or-any-socks-proxy-privoxy/#comment-1055 Rolando Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:11:00 +0000 http://www.inputoutput.io/?p=50#comment-1055 Does this make it possible to use Privoxy's filtering abilities on an Android device? I'd love to start crunching extraneous JS and webbugs... Does this make it possible to use Privoxy’s filtering abilities on an Android device?

I’d love to start crunching extraneous JS and webbugs…

]]> By: admin http://www.inputoutput.io/using-the-android-browser-with-tor-or-any-socks-proxy-privoxy/#comment-904 admin Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:40:26 +0000 http://www.inputoutput.io/?p=50#comment-904 Tunnelz: At the time of this posting, Android >= 1.6 hadn't been released yet, so you couldn't as easily set up a VPN. If you want to route all your traffic through SOCKS, see <a href='http://transocks.sourceforge.net/' rel="nofollow">http://transocks.sourceforge.net/</a> or search on google - I know it's possible, but I'm not sure what the exact iptables rules are. As for the problem with all your data being synced in plaintext, I had a similar problem recently. My solution was to install DroidWall, which you can find on the app market. You can specify apps to blacklist or whitelist based on your connection type. It's for rooted phones only, though. Tunnelz: At the time of this posting, Android >= 1.6 hadn’t been released yet, so you couldn’t as easily set up a VPN. If you want to route all your traffic through SOCKS, see http://transocks.sourceforge.net/ or search on google – I know it’s possible, but I’m not sure what the exact iptables rules are.

As for the problem with all your data being synced in plaintext, I had a similar problem recently. My solution was to install DroidWall, which you can find on the app market. You can specify apps to blacklist or whitelist based on your connection type. It’s for rooted phones only, though.

]]> By: Tunnelz http://www.inputoutput.io/using-the-android-browser-with-tor-or-any-socks-proxy-privoxy/#comment-901 Tunnelz Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:58:34 +0000 http://www.inputoutput.io/?p=50#comment-901 And, I suppose, would setting up a VPN in Settings do essentially the same thing without requiring me to install Debian? And, I suppose, would setting up a VPN in Settings do essentially the same thing without requiring me to install Debian?

]]> By: Tunnelz http://www.inputoutput.io/using-the-android-browser-with-tor-or-any-socks-proxy-privoxy/#comment-900 Tunnelz Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:56:26 +0000 http://www.inputoutput.io/?p=50#comment-900 How specifically would you go about redirecting all traffic through the SOCKS proxy? So I could set up a SSH tunnel to my home router and then redirect everything through there? That would be really great for browsing on public access points without worrying about apps syncing my personal data in plain text in the background. How specifically would you go about redirecting all traffic through the SOCKS proxy? So I could set up a SSH tunnel to my home router and then redirect everything through there? That would be really great for browsing on public access points without worrying about apps syncing my personal data in plain text in the background.

]]> By: admin http://www.inputoutput.io/using-the-android-browser-with-tor-or-any-socks-proxy-privoxy/#comment-884 admin Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:48:10 +0000 http://www.inputoutput.io/?p=50#comment-884 AN@S: This will work with any application where you are able to configure a proxy. You may also be able to redirect all traffic through the SOCKS proxy using iptables rules in the Debian chroot, though I don't recommend it if your SOCKS proxy is running through tor, for reasons of privacy. See: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/09/security_matters_0920 AN@S: This will work with any application where you are able to configure a proxy. You may also be able to redirect all traffic through the SOCKS proxy using iptables rules in the Debian chroot, though I don’t recommend it if your SOCKS proxy is running through tor, for reasons of privacy.

See: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/09/security_matters_0920

]]> By: AN@S http://www.inputoutput.io/using-the-android-browser-with-tor-or-any-socks-proxy-privoxy/#comment-880 AN@S Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:18:11 +0000 http://www.inputoutput.io/?p=50#comment-880 Does this only work with the browser? Can I tunnel other applications through this method? e.g: the market? I'm asking about the market because google blocks access to market from my country. Thanks Does this only work with the browser? Can I tunnel other applications through this method? e.g: the market?
I’m asking about the market because google blocks access to market from my country.

Thanks

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