The second you do anything from a phone, your secret activities and your live identity become one and the same.īasically, if OPSEC is your goal, be like Pauli from Goodfellas. Tails) with no ties to your normal internet activity. In the event the Tor service you are using is compromised, that Tor connection in conjunction with multiple other clearnet services tracking across multiple cell services is absolutely discoverable by a state actor.īottom line is for privacy you need a clean shell (a burner laptop, phone, or virtual machine) running a single purpose operating system (i.e. As you are driving your phone is squaking to every cell tower you pass revealing your location, and a Tor connection, and every other clear net connection your cell phone makes (to Google, to Facebook, to every other service your phone uses to be a phone). The HTML5 geolocation API can not be disabled in UIWebView but it will prompt the user each time the page requests the location. NSURLProtocol is used to redirect web requests to TOR, or any other app specific code. So imagine for instance you are driving in a car and decide to get on Tor to instigate shenanigans. IOS TOR browsers are all built using the iOS components UIWebView and NSURLProtocol. Google Services).įor iPhone, I believe that Orbot is still the main thing, and it does work, but once again, your phone, like all phones is loud as shit.

I would strongly discourage using it, not because it is not a great application, but because your phone is constantly groping for a million random connections at all times meaning your activity will always be correlatable to your uptime on Tor if you visit a compromised site and your phone has a clearnet connection to any other site at the same time (i.e. Tor has released a mobile browser for Android.

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