Dear operator of "NewTorKidOnTheBlock", On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 10:25:31PM +0200, torserver@datakanja.de wrote:
From the information, i can gather on my own personal computer, i can see, that almost every operating system sends out greetings to servers in akamai's reach, a company that happens to have contracts with microsoft and whatnot.
I share your concern over the current trend with commercial website creators to include lots of content from third party websites. Anyone who has seen a visualization like LightBeam <https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/> will understand you – whatever websites you visit, many of them will include content from a handful of CDNs such as Akamai and other trackers.
If not, i am seriously reconsidering the futile attempt to engage into offering something to the net, that could lead to unveiling users activities opposed to what tor seems to promise.
A false sense of security can be very dangerous indeed. However, I would not throw out the baby with the bathwater. TorBrowser is more sophisticated than you think. For each domain you visit, it creates a different circuit. This means that not only will each of the domains you visit see a different source IP, but in each case, Akamai (etc.) will see a different source IP as well. Of course, a dedicated attacker could still try to identify your browser by employing fingerprinting techniques, but TorBrowser tries to minimize these dangers, too. So I tend to agree with Green Dream and Ed Snowden on this matter. Cheers, C: -- Christian Pietsch · volunteering for Digitalcourage e.V., Marktstr. 18, D-33602 Bielefeld, Germany Tel: +49-521-1639 1639 | Fax: +49-521-61172 | mail@digitalcourage.de https://digitalcourage.de | https://bigbrotherawards.de Vorratsdatenspeicherung? Nicht schon wieder! Unterstützen Sie unsere Verfassungsbeschwerde: https://digitalcourage.de/weg-mit-vds