From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jul 16 23:54:53 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 89EF6B9B2B5 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2016 23:54:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56E8612F1 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2016 23:54:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-209-65.knology.net [216.186.209.65] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id u6GNspiW000958 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2016 18:54:51 -0500 Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question 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> <64069.128.135.52.6.1468590832.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <64833.69.209.225.239.1468685631.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 19:00:20 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <64833.69.209.225.239.1468685631.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.22 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: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 23:54:53 -0000 On 07/16/16 11:20, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Sat, July 16, 2016 10:30 am, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> On 07/15/16 09:00, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> On Fri, July 15, 2016 8:15 am, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>>> Wouldn't TOR defeat the geo+IP mapping ? > >>>> 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 >>> >> Funny, when I clicked on the link above, I got an error page that said >> the webpage was incorrectly configured & firefox refused to connect to >> it, even after I added an exception for it .... >> > It opens for me (just tried again in safari and firefox on macintosh at > home - the same happens at my job place). Even though I usually post > something by copying and pasting from the location bar after I open that > page myself, I felt obliged to test again after I learned it didn't work > for you. > > I can imagine one of two things: > > 1. You have [much] tighter security/privacy settings of your browser that > I do > > 2. Your network provider hates tor project and tor network (which defeat > their spying which URLs you are visiting). Some of providers do, the very > moment my provider does it, they loose me as a customer (I would say > forever: I really do have long memory for those who attempted nasty things > against me...). > > Please, tell us what was it, I for one am curious. > > Valeri > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Haven't chased it (yet), but it is reliable/repeatable. The message seems to be from FireFox, but who knows .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.