[tor-talk] Is it secure to use Tor with HTTP Proxies?

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I have read alot of bad guys putting up http proxies so i would not recommend useing a public one, here is some cool research https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=RlSbpVz3RsM

Laura Sharpe <laurasharpe at mailbox.org> skrev: (14 oktober 2016 14:20:00 CEST)
>Is it secure to use Tor with HTTP proxies? Like this:
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>Use proxychains and in /etc/proxychains.conf use:
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>[ProxyList]
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># defaults set to "tor"
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>socks5 127.0.0.1 9050
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>In "standard" Firefox (not the TBB) set Manual Proxy Configuration to a
>HTTP proxy and use the same proxy for all protocols. Make sure Remote
>DNS is ticked.
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>Assume that the HTTP proxy is legitimate.
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>From the command line run:
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>proxychains firefoxhttp://www.example_site.com/
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>Traffic will be routed by proxychains through Tor then is transferred
>through the HTTP proxy.
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>You may say that this is a bad idea since HTTP works at the application
>layer and hence traffic can be intercepted by the provider of the HTTP
>proxy (unlike SOCKS proxies which work at the transport layer (I
>think)). But if the traffic from the user is always to a HTTPS site,
>then why should there be a problem even if the content was intercepted?
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>I know that you can also use proxychains with SOCKS proxies but my
>questions is specifically about using proxychains with HTTP proxies.
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