Mike Perry's FoxyProxy concerns with Tor

Eric H. Jung eric.jung at yahoo.com
Thu May 11 20:30:02 UTC 2006


Nevermind. I forgot about URL parameters.


--- "Eric H. Jung" <eric.jung at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to reply to this thread but long ago deleted it:
> http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Apr-2006/msg00130.html
> 
> To anyone concerned about the possibility of privacy leaks by using
> FoxyProxy with Tor, I'd like your feedback about this:
> 
> Someone suggested an idea which might alleviate these (see
> http://s9.invisionfree.com/foxyproxy/index.php?showtopic=18)
> 
> To summarize: what if each configured proxy had its own set of
> cookies?
> As you switch (manually of automatically) between proxies, the
> relevent
> cookie set is used. Each cookie set would be stored in its own silo,
> preventing the need for clearing of cookies and also preventing
> "cross-over"; that is, cookies written when proxy "x" was in use
> could
> not be read when proxy "y" is in use.
> 
> -eric
> 
> 



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