[tor-bugs] #30518 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Android - Add missing command line options
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#30518: Android - Add missing command line options
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Reporter: sysrqb | Owner: tbb-team
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: Very High | Milestone:
Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version:
Severity: Normal | Keywords: tbb-8.5-must
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After looking at #30284 and talking with sisbell, I noticed there are some
more differences between how tor is launched on Linux and how it is
launched on Android. Tor isn't given geoip DBs, but that's not a problem
right now (we can add that later). More concerning is that on desktop we
set `IPv6Traffic` `PreferIPv6` and `KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth`. The first
two are a distinguisher at the exit node (in theory, there shouldn't be
many ways an exit node can identify different Tor Browser platforms if the
connection between the exit node and destination server uses TLS). We
should set these tor config options for both consistency but also because
not being consistent is bad for anonymity.
[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-launcher.git/tree/src/components/tl-
process.js#n456 Where Tor Launcher sets the args]. I currently see this on
Linux when running Tor Browser:
{{{
/home/user/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/tor
--defaults-torrc /home/user/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor
/torrc-defaults
-f /home/user/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc
DataDirectory /home/user/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor
GeoIPFile /home/user/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/geoip
GeoIPv6File /home/user/tor-browser_en-
US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/geoip6 HashedControlPassword 16:$hash
127.0.0.1:9150
IPv6Traffic PreferIPv6 KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth __OwningControllerProcess
666
}}}
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