Accessing MEGA via TOR?

Discussion in 'privacy technology' started by TheRussian, Apr 19, 2013.

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  1. TheRussian

    TheRussian Registered Member

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    When you try to access mega.co.nz it says that your browser can't write data so it wouldn't work.

    Is there a way to make it work?
    I wouldn't mind taking a cookie of two, or some JS or HTML5 from this site. But I'm not sure this is the problem in this case?
     
  2. JohnMatrix

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    Some sites block tor exit nodes for some reason. But if you can access mega and some parts of the site don't work you could check to see if noscript is running. By default the tor browser bundle enables (or did in the past) the noscript extension causing javascript code to fail. The failure could also be because of restrictive localstorage rights, i.e. tor browser bundle might prevent mega from writing persistent local storage data.

    I'm using another upload site, www.file1.info, because it allows FTP uploads and HTML4 uploads and HTML5 (chunked) uploads so I can choose whatever I want depending on my situation: FTP when connected to a VPN, HTML4 upload with TOR and HTML5 upload with recent browsers where I have javascript enabled.
     
  3. TheRussian

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    I tried with secured Firefox (JonDo browser) it gives the same thing.
    ANd i've enabled JS and cookies for it.
    What else it might be needing?
     
  4. mirimir

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    Use a VPN through Tor, and a regular Linux VM with Firefox as client.

    But MEGA via Tor would be SLOW ;)
     
  5. TheRussian

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    the real machine would be on VPN through tor, and the virtual one will be used just for it's firefox client, is that right mirimir?
    That's geniuss! :)
     
  6. mirimir

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    With just a host and one VM, I'd run Tor on the host and a VPN in the VM. But then your ISP would see that you're running Tor. Better would be running one VPN (call it VPN1) on the host, and the Whonix VMs (with Tor running on the gateway VM), and a different VPN (VPN2, free or paid with well-laundered Bitcoins) running on the Whonix workstation. That way, your ISP would just see VPN1, and websites would just see VPN2.
     
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