Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 11:13:51 -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: <64833.69.209.225.239.1468685631.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <cab9cfc8-b1f4-65ab-f76b-c2aff6fe014a@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> <64069.128.135.52.6.1468590832.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <cab9cfc8-b1f4-65ab-f76b-c2aff6fe014a@hiwaay.net>
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On Sat, July 16, 2016 10:30 am, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > 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 ? <snip> >>> Indeed, since I started using >>> TOR, whenever I visit Google, <snip> >> 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 >> > > 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 .... > It opens for me (just tried again in safari and firefox on macintosh at home - the same happens at my job place). Even though I usually post something by copying and pasting from the location bar after I open that page myself, I felt obliged to test again after I learned it didn't work for you. I can imagine one of two things: 1. You have [much] tighter security/privacy settings of your browser that I do 2. Your network provider hates tor project and tor network (which defeat their spying which URLs you are visiting). Some of providers do, the very moment my provider does it, they loose me as a customer (I would say forever: I really do have long memory for those who attempted nasty things against me...). Please, tell us what was it, I for one am curious. Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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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