[tor-dev] Concerns regarding a multilingual version of TBB,

Tim Wilson-Brown - teor teor2345 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 19:49:31 UTC 2015


> On 9 Oct 2015, at 06:42, Yet Another Tor User <yetanothertoruser at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> I saw an email on the Wiki mailing list concerning a multilingual version of Tor. If that was made possible your language tag be used to track you. This could break your anonymity. Your thoughts?

Tor is currently available in multiple languages, just not in the same download.
We could use the solutions we currently use for this issue:
* for the HTTP headers, send “accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.5”
and in other places, either send en-US, or send no language.

Tim

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