Anonymous Blogging

RMS gnu.rms at gmail.com
Wed Nov 15 17:58:48 UTC 2006


> > If you don't enable hide-forwarded-for-headers you are sending your
> > client's IP address to the web server. If you aren't using NAT,
> > this will obviously affect your anonymity.
>
> If you're running Privoxy on the machine you are using to browse, and
> you're connecting using the address "127.0.0.1," the Forwarded-For
> header should read "127.0.0.1," so there's no real threat.

I cannot find the parameter "hide-forwarded-for-headers". Is it in one
of the files I had cleared?

Anyway, my masked IP was tested to be a Tor node from the detector.
Can I conclude that the 3 files can be safely cleared without
compromising on my anonymity?


Regards



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