[Bug 70333] Tor support

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70333

--- Comment #7 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> But I want to be able to use IRC through Tor, and at the
> same time browse in Epiphany without Tor, or use Jabber without Tor.

Being a bit of a devil's advocate, because sometimes a maintainer's job is to
say "no" until a better solution is found: why is it desirable to be anonymous
on IRC, but not on Jabber or the web?

Tor doesn't provide end-to-end security in the same way that SSL or a VPN can:
without Tor your local ISP (plus all hops from them to the destination) can
read and alter your unencrypted messages, whereas with Tor, an unknown and
quite possibly malicious exit node (plus all hops from them to the destination)
can read and alter your unencrypted messages.

SSL gives you integrity, privacy and (if implemented well) perfect forward
secrecy; SSL-over-Tor attempts to add anonymity to that (although secure
anonymity is really, really hard). As far as I can see, Tor without SSL only
provides anonymity, and a limited amount of that.

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