Dear All,
This may be very interesting. In my mind using Torsocks could provide more flexibility and options than anything else.
I have been using Tor hidden services with the wifi pineapple. For me the big benefit is that it makes setting up and anonymising (in principle), a reverse ssh session, more straightforward. I would welcome feedback here or differing opinions?
Whilst Torsocks (I think) will be easier and more flexible in the long run to setup and use, my question would be "does it offer the same levels of anonymity as Tor hidden services?"
However, for me (and I may be missing something), there are 3 main negative points using Tor hidden services;
Tor startup is CPU and RAM intensive, so much so it does cause reliability issues, i.e. initial boot up frequently crashes. For the reverse shell I only seem to be able to get a combination of Dropbear and OpenSSH to work (I think further exacerbating the first point as OpenSSH has a larger memory footprint). I can't get autossh to work, so have to cludge this without autossh, my suspicion being that this is to do with the mix of Dropbear and OpenSSH.
I'm assuming that point 1 above will be the same whether Tor hidden services or Torsocks are used, can anyone confirm or refute this point please?
I'm hopeful the new version of the Alfa hardware with more memory will help.