From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jul 15 13:53:54 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F15B99569 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2016 13:53:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.70.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E111F54 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2016 13:53:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id 136DECB8CB4; Fri, 15 Jul 2016 08:53:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 128.135.52.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jul 2016 08:53:52 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <64069.128.135.52.6.1468590832.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 08:53:52 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "William A. Mahaffey III" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal References: <5e4a20fe-51a4-ac10-4f72-23fcc3d04c15@hiwaay.net> <20160714002117.224b64ae@archlinux.localdomain> <8cd76e2e-ed11-7b3b-be75-de6bb4dcc092@hiwaay.net> <20160714063744.snaqwdbmzhd4ndb5@dijkstra.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> <86r3awnh1i.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <20160714220944.2f05391f@archlinux.localdomain> <86poqfohta.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <5798a075-66eb-dc37-729b-ba8e72f2e1df@hiwaay.net> <20160715064517.15ffaa62@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 13:53:54 -0000 On Fri, July 15, 2016 8:15 am, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > Wouldn't TOR defeat the geo+IP mapping ? Yes, it does. Tor itself does not pass information to them it can get from your machine locally. The only information that can be collected is about exit point IP. > Indeed, since I started using > TOR, whenever I visit Google, But when you are using tor (or tor browser), _YOU_ with your habits of doing things can defeat significant portion of privacy protection tor gives you. One of the things to avoid here: don't use google for searches. On tor project website there is short writeup. But that is really instructive, it gives a bunch of simple rules and good practices. The link also is on the first page when you start tor browser. Here it is: https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en#warning Valeri >I have to do a captcha-style click through > to get my search results back .... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++