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:
This is a transcript of a talk I gave at FOSDEM 2019 in the Monitoring and Observability devroom about the work of Tor Metrics.
Direct links:
Producing this transcript was more work than I had anticipated it would be, and I’ve done this in my free time, so if you find it useful then please do let me know otherwise I probably won’t be doing this again.