[tor-bugs] #3455 [Firefox Patch Issues]: Tor Browser should set SOCKS username for a request based on referer

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Mon May 7 03:42:43 UTC 2012


#3455: Tor Browser should set SOCKS username for a request based on referer
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 Reporter:  mikeperry             |          Owner:  mikeperry                    
     Type:  enhancement           |         Status:  new                          
 Priority:  major                 |      Milestone:  TorBrowserBundle 2.3.x-stable
Component:  Firefox Patch Issues  |        Version:                               
 Keywords:  tbb-linkability       |         Parent:  #5752                        
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Comment(by mikeperry):

 Note that we'll also need to find some way to extract the referer even for
 users who disable referers/have arbitrary 3rd party addons that spoof
 them, especially if we want to stop those users from creating tons of
 circuits (#5708).

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