I’ve been rebuilding my IRC bouncer setup and as part of this process I’ve decided to connect to IRC via onion services where possible. This setup isn’t intended to provide anonymity as once I’m connected I’m going to identify to NickServ anyway. I guess it provides a little protection in that my IP address shouldn’t be visible in that gap between connection and a cloak activating, but there’s so many other ways that my identity could leak.
The following has already been reported to GitHub via HackerOne. Someone from GitHub has closed the report as “informative” but told me that it’s a known low-risk issue. As such, while they haven’t explicitly said so, I figure they don’t mind me blogging about it. Check out this commit in torvalds’ linux.git on GitHub. In case this is fixed, here’s a screenshot of what I see when I look at this link:
I have a storage box in my house that stores important documents, backups, VM disk images, photos, a copy of the Tor Metrics archive and other odd things. I’ve put a lot of effort into making sure that it is both reliable and performant. When I was working on a modern CollecTor for Tor Metrics recently, I used this to be able to run the entire history of the Tor network through the prototype replacement to see if I could catch any bugs.