Re: Question collaborative editing - torify emacs

[Jean Louis]

* Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu> [2020-10-28 21:04]:
> > 
> > You can try to torify emacs, open up server, tell me the IP address
> > (other websites will tell it) and I can try to connect.
> That’s not how tor work. I’m pretty sure this IP will change,
> and will not accept connection.
> 
> What’s supposed to happen is the server starts a Tor hidden service
> https://roll.urown.net/server/tor/tor-hidden-service.html 
> <https://roll.urown.net/server/tor/tor-hidden-service.html>
> and the client connect to it through the Tor proxy installed on the
> client machine.
> There’s a lot to setup, but if user gives Emacs root access
> it won’t be that hard to write an Elisp script to automate all these.

It does not sound safe: Emacs with root access on network?

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Jean Louis