Tor and Torsocks updates

John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Thu Oct 20 04:21:45 PDT 2016


> On Oct 20, 2016, at 7:13 AM, John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> On Oct 20, 2016, at 12:55 AM, Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 10/19/2016 10:27 PM, grarpamp wrote:
>>> For people using tor...
>>> 
>>> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0289-released-important-fixes
>>> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-October/011579.html
>> 
>> Huh? So in OSX, one can no longer "torsocks apt-get install foo"?
> 
> You can disable the odious SIP feature in OSX. I don't know why torsocks bothers to check specifically for SIP, I guess it's a better error message than simply failing to write out anywhere but /usr/local/...
> 

I misread - torsocks won't even run any SIP protected binary. Presumably this begins to work again when you disable SIP. Horrible "feature" in 10.11/10.12

John



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