[tor-talk] Anonymity of RSS readers

Jan Reister Jan.Reister at unimi.it
Mon Sep 22 12:57:05 UTC 2014


Il 21/09/2014 13:49, Christian Stadelmann ha scritto:
> b) using Tor
> This is a bad idea too since I regularly fetch some hundred RSS/Atom
> files, some of them via unencrypted HTTP. This would clearly undermine
> all anonymity provided by tor. 

Do you mean that the hundreds rss feeds are a unique fingerprint to you?

> What can I do?
> 
> I have only one slight idea of a solution: Use a RSS reader which
> fetches all files via tor with a random lag between [1]. It MUST load all
> content (images, ...) instantly OR remove and never display it.

Have you considered a web-based, self-hosted rss reader such as tt-rss?
You can effectively separate the act of updating the feeds from the act
of actually reading them.

http://tt-rss.org

Jan


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