Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 08:53:52 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question Message-ID: <64069.128.135.52.6.1468590832.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <c2794ba7-be2e-64e7-7a3b-5fb898223ed9@hiwaay.net> References: <5e4a20fe-51a4-ac10-4f72-23fcc3d04c15@hiwaay.net> <20160714002117.224b64ae@archlinux.localdomain> <8cd76e2e-ed11-7b3b-be75-de6bb4dcc092@hiwaay.net> <20160714063744.snaqwdbmzhd4ndb5@dijkstra.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> <86r3awnh1i.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <20160714220944.2f05391f@archlinux.localdomain> <86poqfohta.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <5798a075-66eb-dc37-729b-ba8e72f2e1df@hiwaay.net> <20160715064517.15ffaa62@archlinux.localdomain> <c2794ba7-be2e-64e7-7a3b-5fb898223ed9@hiwaay.net>
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On Fri, July 15, 2016 8:15 am, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > Wouldn't TOR defeat the geo+IP mapping ? Yes, it does. Tor itself does not pass information to them it can get from your machine locally. The only information that can be collected is about exit point IP. > Indeed, since I started using > TOR, whenever I visit Google, But when you are using tor (or tor browser), _YOU_ with your habits of doing things can defeat significant portion of privacy protection tor gives you. One of the things to avoid here: don't use google for searches. On tor project website there is short writeup. But that is really instructive, it gives a bunch of simple rules and good practices. The link also is on the first page when you start tor browser. Here it is: https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en#warning Valeri >I have to do a captcha-style click through > to get my search results back .... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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