Also, make sure you have an application firewall to stop DNS leaks and plugins from taking your anonymity away.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeffrey F. Bloss</b> <<a href="mailto:jbloss@tampabay.rr.com">
jbloss@tampabay.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">RMS wrote:<br><br>> > > If you don't enable hide-forwarded-for-headers you are sending
<br>> > > your client's IP address to the web server. If you aren't using<br>> > > NAT, this will obviously affect your anonymity.<br>> ><br>> > If you're running Privoxy on the machine you are using to browse,
<br>> > and you're connecting using the address "<a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a>," the<br>> > Forwarded-For header should read "<a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a>," so there's no real
<br>> > threat.<br>><br>> I cannot find the parameter "hide-forwarded-for-headers". Is it in one<br>> of the files I had cleared?<br>><br>> Anyway, my masked IP was tested to be a Tor node from the detector.
<br>> Can I conclude that the 3 files can be safely cleared without<br>> compromising on my anonymity?<br><br>No, you can't conclude that. Even *with* those three files there's no<br>guarantees. There's a lot more to it than your IP address, and that is
<br>what Privoxy is meant to do... pick up where Tor leaves off. Tor<br>anonymizes the connection, Privoxy scrubs the information that's sent<br>over it. Without Privoxy your chances of being discovered by way of<br>some Javascript or "web bug" trickery increases, for example. So does
<br>the ability of an attacker to potentially track you by certain unique<br>qualities in your HTTP headers. Privoxy goes a long way to address<br>some of these issues, and by neutering it you're really gaining nothing,<br>
and sacrificing quite a bit.<br><br>--<br>Hand crafted on 15 November, 2006 at 13:50:00 EST using<br>only the finest domestic and imported ASCII.<br><br>Please don't make me angry, I'm running out<br>of places to hide the bodies.
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