Re: browser fingerprinting - panopticlick

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Andrew Lewman wrote:
> On 01/29/2010 04:36 PM, Michael Holstein wrote:
>>> The main cause was the screen resolution.
> 
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/effs-panopticlick-and-torbutton
> 
>> Running TOR and leaving javascript enabled sort of defeats the 
>> point, doesn't it?
> 
> Not really.  Most of the websites are useless without javascript 
> enabled.  Torbutton protects against known attacks via javascript 
> (yes there's something to be said about unknown attacks...).
> 

(Sigh)...Exactly right; and add flash to that prerequisite.

As we slowly transition to web 2.0, probably the next step is putting
the TOR browser in a VM full of bogus, randomized userid/sysid/network
information - carefully firewalled to allow TOR access only (TOR would
be running somewhere outside the browser VM).

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