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Re: Firefox through Tor

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From: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:18:24 -0400
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So the problem is that a motivated adversary can subpoena or simply
ask DoubleClick to hand over their IP/cookie logs. If you are using
Tor for /everything/, then what they get from DoubleClick for that
email address is just a Tor IP, no harm no foul. However, if the user
had set up a filter that only sends *yahoo.com through Tor, then
DoubleClick will have their /real IP/ on file in association with
whatever unique ID yahoo passed for that email address, even though
yahoo's records show only the Tor IP.


Swichproxy (as well as CTRL+SHIFT+DEL) in Firefox will clear all cookies.

Anytime you switch between TOR/Direct you should close down to all but one blank window, clear cookies/cache one way or another, and *then* proceed.

/mike.

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