optional warning when making connections while torbutton is disabled
I am a contributor to the incognito project (link below) which is aims for creating a liveCD offering anonymity for the masses through tor. We are currently considering to switch from NoScript+CookieCuller to torbutton because of usability issues. Another reason is that deactivating tor through torbutton would be an easy and consistent way for users to temporarily be able to access the network directly which sometimes is required by ISP logins and similar. But for this we would require a clear indicator that tor currently isn't used and some mechanism that prevents users from making insecure connections.
One way we have thought about this would be if torbutton would have an option that, when enabled, prompts the user whenever he or she clicks a link/enters a URL etc, stating that the connection will be insecure and presenting the user with the option to either go on with the insecure connection or to switch torbutton on and make a secure connection (or cancel, I guess).
We realize that some might consider this as just adding extra bloat to torbutton's configuration, but we consider this to be quite useful (if not crucial) in contexts where tor should be used by default and direct connections are exceptions.
Incognito link: http://www.patdouble.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=3&Itemid=6
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