Whitedust article, Tor USB Product

Matt Thorne mlthorne at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 04:13:24 UTC 2005


it is called Portable firefox. it is made by John Haller, and can be
got from his new site portableapps.com

He knows.

On 12/14/05, ADB <firefox-gen at walala.org> wrote:
> No but what about that project that is compact FF and TB by itself, out of
> the context of Tor entirely? I don't even know if the developers of that
> even know Tor exists. If I could remember what it's called, I could tell you
> but I can't. I think they post updates on majorgeeks.com though.
>
>
> The domain Phoenixoflight.org is for sale!
>
>
> Arrakistor wrote:
> Hello ADB,

Torpark IS the self-contained usb thing with Firefox and
> Thunderbird,
at least thunderbird should be expected within the next few
> months.
And the latest version was released less than a month ago I
> believe.
I'm building another version very soon, if I can get some more
> help
from programmers. I should also have a Tor firefox plugin available
> in
the future as well.

ST


Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 9:32:08 PM, you
> wrote:


> Some would argue that it's just the free market doing it's
thing,and some
> entrepreneur is cashing in ;D. What's the name of
thatself-contained,
> 'USB-stick' Thurnderbird and Firefox? I can't
think ofthe name right now. It
> would probably be really easy for
Arrakis to addthis to his project. The one
> thing that's nice about
VPM though is thatit is cross-platform and contains
> a few extra
security features thatwould be hard for a non-geek to configure.
> The
reason I say this isbecause there are many dedicated freedom
activists
> in the US and aroundthe world that are just dying
(sometimes literally) for
> something likethis, but don't have the
technical know-how to
> self-implement.

>
> Arrakis, do you need help with TorPark? If so, I'd be willing to chipin, at
> least to a degree.

>
> ~ADB

>

> Thedomain Phoenixoflight.org is for sale!

>

> Void Beast wrote:
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> Indeed it would... Paying for privacy? I don't think that's quiteright.
Grr.
>

>

> Beast

>

> mary wrote:

>

>
> It would be quite easy to build on of these yourself and place iton
> a
flashcard, digital camera or what have you.  Make it a weekendproject.

-m
>

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, ADB wrote:


> An associated article on OSNews points to a new tor-basedembedded
>
Linux-on-USB-stick product called  Tor Desktop: VirtualPrivacy
> Machine
(http://www.virtualprivacymachine.com/products.html).It
> sellsfor $45,
and this might be a convenient option for some
> people,especially those
who are less technically adept and/or who have to
> use publicor work
computers that they can't/aren't allowed to install
> programsor or
reconfigure.
   Thoughts?

~ADB

>
>


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