[tor-talk] Can Tor users be tracked?

[Nam Su]

2012. 11. 8. AM 2:33 adrelanos <adrelanos at riseup.net> wrote:

> Nam Su:
>> 
>> 
>> 2012. 11. 8. AM 1:31 adrelanos <adrelanos at riseup.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Nam Su:
>>>> Hello. I saw a blog post in Internet. It says the government
>>> 
>>> Not only government.
>> Does ISP can track Tor users?
>> 
>>> 
>>>> can track Tor user with plugin like active-x and javascript. Is it true?
>>> 
>>> Active-X / Flash:
>>> - Unless special setups are used, yes. It can establish direct
>>> connections and circumvent the proxy.
>> So, shouldn't I use active-x and flash?
>> 
>>> 
>>> Javascript:
>>> - Can not be directly used for deanonymization. Can be used for browser
>>> fingerprinting, linking all sessions to the same pseudonym and to
>>> collect loads of other data, see ip-check.info for example.
>>> - Risk for browser exploits and therefore leak the IP.
>> 
>> Sorry. I have a poor English so I understand this JavaScript can't track my ip but can track other information like timezone, macaddress, and windows user name. I think there are some misunderstanding. Am I understand right?
> 
> I don't know about mac address and windows user name, but generally yes,
> lots of data.
> 
> IP as far I know only though security exploits.

So, using JavaScript is safe if there were no security exploits?