On 03/12/2015 01:38 PM, Gustin Johnson wrote: > Even TOR which was designed to do this as much as possible is far from > perfect (essentially best case is that TOR provides a 50/50 chance that your > privacy is maintained).
Gustin, I couldn't find anything about the 50/50 privacy, if you have any pointers can you share? > This can have some advantage in that your exit point can be in a different > legal jurisdiction, but never assume that you are protected. [...] Your > browser is still connecting to the same endpoints, the web sites still use > various tracking methods to uniquely identify your connection, and none of > this is solved by a VPN. If Joe is looking for anonymity while browsing, then a simple solution is using the Tor browser (which provides https, protection against canvas fingerprinting etc.) over an SSH socks tunnel to a VPS outside NSA (and friends) jurisdiction. If the SSH tunnel dies the browser won't connect, here's an output from my session: Apr 02 22:42:47.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor circuit Apr 02 22:42:48.000 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like client functionality is working. Apr 02 22:42:48.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done Apr 02 22:42:49.000 [notice] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1. ... Apr 02 23:34:20.000 [warn] The connection to the SOCKS5 proxy server at 127.0.0.1:44380 just failed. Make sure that the proxy server is up and running. Apr 02 23:34:21.000 [warn] The connection to the SOCKS5 proxy server at 127.0.0.1:44380 just failed. Make sure that the proxy server is up and running. This will make an interesting reading for everyone interested in privacy: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorPlusVPN https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/warning/index.en.html -- Viorel
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