Browser dos/don'ts ( was Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo)
Robert Hogan
robert at roberthogan.net
Sat Oct 13 08:21:40 UTC 2007
On Friday 12 October 2007 00:26:46 phobos at rootme.org wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:57:48PM +0100, robert at roberthogan.net wrote 1.1K
bytes in 29 lines about:
> : Keeping track of all the things you should turn off or get a proxy to
> : tweak makes my feeble head hurt.
>
> The latest torbutton-dev releases handle most of this for you.
So for any browser without torbutton the list of things to do while using tor
is:
Turn off:
Javascript (browser)
Java (browser)
Plugins (browser)
Cookies (browser)
Referer Headers (privacy proxy)
Caching (browser)
History reads/writes (browser)
Do:
Spoof user-agent (is this necessary even with javascript disabled?) (browser)
Spoof http-headers as though a US english browser (browser/privacy proxy?)
Do not:
Use tabs (enforced/recommended by controller?)
Keep the browser open when finished 'using tor' (enforced/recommended by
controller?)
Anything to add/remove/clarify?
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