Tor

There are probably dozens if not hundreds of applications which don't perform DNS lookups over the proxy they're configured to use. Usually because of an oversight by the developer of the app. This is why you can't just blindly install random apps like Google Chrome and expect them to work with Tor. The only browser recommended by the Tor project is Firefox, and even then you have to install a special plugin called TorButton and you probably want to stick Privoxy in the middle.

I expect there are *many* other flaws in the way Chrome would work with Tor, regarding plugins like Flash and Java and anything else which can create Internet traffic.

If you want all apps to be anonymised, then you need to configure the OS to route all outgoing traffic through Tor. Configuring individual apps to do it can lead to leaks. There is plenty of documentation and discussion on how to do this.

If you read the Tor documentation and understand it, and are careful about how you configure and use it, then you can get a decent level of anonymity. Anything less than that, and all bets are off.

Well surprise surprise!

Given Google CEO Eric Schmidt's well-known attitude towards privacy I'd say this is not a bug, it's a feature. After all, wouldn't he just say that if you're browsing anonymously you're probably browsing something you shouldn't be?

We need Eric is angel/evil icons to go with Bill and Steve down there. Though I can't see the angel one getting used much...

Bug?

With Google I think it's a feature.

Chrome or Chrome?

Can El Reg, (since Google failed to do so) create an alternative way to describe the browser and the OS.

Whereas Chrome's privacy mode

...is just about no logs, correct?

Well, that and not saving temporary files that can be undeleted, either, one would like to be told. That is, if one wanted it in the first place.

Which browser does do this?

I don't think this is a Chrome issue. All the browsers use the local DNS stuff so they can take advantage of caching.

Why? Very good reason to be anonymous

Look at the way photographers are being treated by the police in this country.

Think yourself lucky that you are not in a country that would shoot you for disagreeing with their law officials online or otherwise.

Now remember why anonymity is so important.

Not everyone in the world is as lucky as us.

Doesn't the proxy server...

Surely when you use a Web proxy server, it looks after that stuff for you? You tell the.browser where the proxy is and it does everything including name resolution, your PC doesn't need to +now addresses?

Workaround therefore: don't assign a domain name server on your PC, or disable it, or set it to 127.0.0.1.

I think.

Not something unique to Chrome.

I wrote an article on setting up your own SSH tunnel as a SOCKS proxy, and Firefox used to do the same thing. I'm not entirely sure if it still does, however.

http://www.classicwfl.com/blog/2008/01/from-productiv-secure-surfing-e-mail.html