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Add-ons for Nightingale
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TorBirdy for Nightingale #6

Open bakagirl opened 11 years ago

bakagirl commented 11 years ago

First off, for those unfamiliar with Tor Birdy (https://blog.torproject.org/blog/torbirdy-our-first-beta-release)..

Of course Nightingale isn't a e-mail client like Thunderbird (which TorBirdy was designed for) but considering that many of the same XUL pats make up the player, I was wondering about the idea of porting over/adapting TorBirdy for Nightingale? To me this would be a nice addon which if it worked the way I envision, would allow a simple way to have Nightingale forward any scrobbles/album art/http requests/etc anonymously over the Tor network.

For sure one can manually go about telling ones machine to just forward all connections this way, but in this case I think it'd be much easier to be able to have access to a simple addon to do the same thing; this would especially be useful to have for people who are not tech-savy.

rsjtdrjgfuzkfg commented 11 years ago

I personally don't understand the tor scrobble part and think it would rather reduce the anonymity, but I like tor :P In theory it might work out of the box. If Tor Birdy hooks into xulrunner in a transparent way, it would be just a issue of changing a single file - ONCE we have a recent xulrunner working. The latter part will take some time, but is planned.

bakagirl commented 11 years ago

TorBirdy has been updated since I posted: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-March/027608.html

Unsure about the inner-workings for the hooks into xulrunner, but from that description it sounds very promising. :)

As to the anonymity with scrobbles it seems to me that it would afford anonymity to anyone using Tor as their main webrowser since they could anonymously log-in/sign-up for services such as last.fm or libre.fm with Tor and then with TorBirdy for Nightingale they could be sure that their scrobbles would not betray their location wherever they happen to be listening from. This to my mind would be one more step to giving users privacy by-design rather than privacy by-policy which so many online services marginalize users into. On this note of course it might be good to stress/preface (warning box on startup or in description possibly) that any anonymity TorBidy for Nightingale will afford is related to how much you use Tor in general...? (And considering the ecosystem, thats getting better all the time: http://ftp.ccc.de/congress/2012/mp4-h264-HQ/29c3-5306-en-the_tor_software_ecosystem_h264.mp4)

And since i'm linking videos, these are also some Tor talks worth watching if you/others have the time: http://is.gd/governmentsandTor & http://is.gd/IcelandTortalk