Anonymous Blogging

[Ringo Kamens]

Also, make sure you have an application firewall to stop DNS leaks and
plugins from taking your anonymity away.

On 11/15/06, Jeffrey F. Bloss <jbloss at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> RMS wrote:
>
> > > > 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?
>
> No, you can't conclude that. Even *with* those three files there's no
> guarantees. There's a lot more to it than your IP address, and that is
> what Privoxy is meant to do... pick up where Tor leaves off. Tor
> anonymizes the connection, Privoxy scrubs the information that's sent
> over it. Without Privoxy your chances of being discovered by way of
> some Javascript or "web bug" trickery increases, for example. So does
> the ability of an attacker to potentially track you by certain unique
> qualities in your HTTP headers. Privoxy goes a long way to address
> some of these issues, and by neutering it you're really gaining nothing,
> and sacrificing quite a bit.
>
> --
> Hand crafted on 15 November, 2006 at 13:50:00 EST using
> only the finest domestic and imported ASCII.
>
> Please don't make me angry, I'm running out
> of places to hide the bodies.
>
>
>
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