Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 19:00:20 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question Message-ID: <d144c6cf-cd6a-3b46-4b6d-5be459dad4c7@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <64833.69.209.225.239.1468685631.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> <cab9cfc8-b1f4-65ab-f76b-c2aff6fe014a@hiwaay.net> <64833.69.209.225.239.1468685631.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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On 07/16/16 11:20, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > 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 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Haven't chased it (yet), but it is reliable/repeatable. The message seems to be from FireFox, but who knows .... -- 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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