Re: [dev] [surf] [patch] 13 patches from my Universal Same-Origin Policy branch

2015-03-25 Thread tautolog
Thank you for the reply, Markus.  That is a very good point. The reason why I wanted to try this approach is because, even with being in a very large anonymous set in HTTP headers, the IP address network or region may be used split large sets down to individuals. I saw it in a paper, but I don'

Re: [dev] [surf] [patch] 13 patches from my Universal Same-Origin Policy branch

2015-03-25 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 02:14:30AM +0100, Markus Teich wrote: > randomizing these headers at all rapidly shrinks the anonymity set size. Yes; doing this only makes you _more_ unique. If you really want to blend in, you should lie about your user agent and set it to something popular like Internet

Re: [dev] [surf] [patch] 13 patches from my Universal Same-Origin Policy branch

2015-03-25 Thread tautolog
Thanks for the reply, Nick. Re: patch 5, have you seen that behavior before? I saw something from an Ajax request from some advertising code, and made that change after debugging.  Re: patch 7, ‎I want to do the user agent similar to how I do accept language, adding meaningless semantics that a

Re: [dev] [surf] [patch] 13 patches from my Universal Same-Origin Policy branch

2015-03-25 Thread Markus Teich
Nick wrote: > - [PATCH 07/13] add random entropy to user-agent and accept-language headers. > > I definitely like the idea, but wonder whether the solution in the patch is a > bit overkill. After all, if we're basically just trying to defeat hashing > correlations, then one random byte at the end

Re: [dev] [surf] [patch] 13 patches from my Universal Same-Origin Policy branch

2015-03-25 Thread Nick
Hi Ben, interesting stuff indeed, thanks for sharing. Some of these features should be merged into the main surf repo, I think: - [PATCH 04/13] Disable useless webkit features that could harm privacy. Sounds good to me. - [PATCH 05/13] Do not trigger a download for subframes that webkit ca

Re: [dev] [surf] [patch] 13 patches from my Universal Same-Origin Policy branch

2015-03-25 Thread sekret
Am 25. März 2015 05:43:48 MEZ, schrieb Ben Woolley : >Hi list, > >I merged my big patch with the latest master, and finally got around >to splitting up my big patch into 13 smaller patches in commit order >(used git format patch). Each commit compiles and functions, and is >separately integrated, s

[dev] [vis] buffer_alloc issues

2015-03-25 Thread noname
I'm not sure if vis is supported in suckless mailing list, but as it was discussed here previously, i'm writing here. There are two issues with buffer_alloc function(s). First function is located in buffer.c: http://repo.or.cz/w/vis.git/blob/HEAD:/buffer.c The problem is on line 15: http://repo.