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It's generally safer to use torsocks, because it routes DNS queries via Tor. As oil25 notes, using the ProxyCommand option doesn't. However, it's possible that
by mirimir 7y ago
It's generally safer to use torsocks, because it routes DNS queries via Tor. As oil25 notes, using the ProxyCommand option doesn't. However, it's possible that torsocks in 2013 didn't reliably block DNS leaks.
In any case, Whonix was available in 2013, and using it would have -- and does -- prevent DNS leaks.