Re: Any way to secure/anonymize ALL traffic?

[Praedor Atrebates <praedor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Could one setup a VM with some arbitrary timezone for it alone and run tor and bind there so that flash and javascript cannot get such info as local timezone, etc?  Would it be possible to have the VM change timezone in some random/semi-random fashion so that any timezone (and other) info that could be otherwise acquired would be just as unreliable an identifier of your system/location as information acquired from a tor session?  Then, even if flash or javascript did try to pull information outside tor it would be totally bogus and ever-changing.  It would still be nice to be able to squelch any attempt by flash to find your REAL IP address by forcing it to ALWAYS exit via tor no matter what.

praedor

On Wednesday, December 22, 2010 04:43:21 pm you wrote:
>   On 22/12/10 13:38, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> > I have always been disturbed by the fact that javascript or flash can sidestep tor and give away your real IP.
> 
> Are you sure that JavaScript can give away your IP?  Flash can - but my 
> understanding is that JavaScript cannot.
> 
> As another poster noted though: JS is great for providing browser and 
> system information such as the local time zone.
> > Is there truly no way to control one's own computer so that any and ALL traffic that goes out to the ethernet port or wlan gets directed through tor no matter what?  Can any combination of software and hardware prevent software on one's own computer from acting the way someone else wants rather than as the owner wants?  I would love to be able to use javascript and flash (some site require one or the other or both to be functional) and know that ANY traffic that exits my own system WILL be directed through the tor network.
> >
> Three suggestions:
> 
> a) Use Tor with TorButton and NoScript which will deal with your Flash / 
> JavaScript issues.  It is impractical to turn JavaScript off and a few 
> sites like YouTube demand Flash.
> 
> b) Make sure you wipe your cache and your Flash Cookies.  Are you using 
> Windows or Linux?  For Ubuntu you need to wipe the .adobe and .macromedia 
> folders.
> 
> c) Why not use Tor with a commercial VPN.  The VPN (providing it does DNS 
> resolution) will route all traffic and then you can use specific 
> applications like Firefox or Pidgin to work with Tor.
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