From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jul 16 15:32:12 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78598B9B99C for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:32:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 452371A77 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:32:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-209-65.knology.net [216.186.209.65] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id u6GFW4uY022792 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:32:05 -0500 Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question 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> <64069.128.135.52.6.1468590832.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:37:33 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <64069.128.135.52.6.1468590832.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:32:12 -0000 On 07/15/16 09:00, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > 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 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > > Funny, when I clicked on the link above, I got an error page that said the webpage was incorrectly configured & firefox refused to connect to it, even after I added an exception for it .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.