Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:37:33 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question Message-ID: <cab9cfc8-b1f4-65ab-f76b-c2aff6fe014a@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <64069.128.135.52.6.1468590832.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> 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> <64069.128.135.52.6.1468590832.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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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.
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