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Re: email with Tor



A nice place to check what info your browser gives
out.

http://gemal.dk/browserspy/

Disabling javascript seemed to work fine for me. From
memory I seem to recall that hotmail won't work
without javascript. There may be more ways for a site
to retrieve a time zone though. 

-Jed

--- Ben Clifford <rhodopsin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I am using Tor to hide what country I am in when in
> email contact. Each time 
> I email - I will be emailing with a different IP
> (most probably), 
> originating to a range of countries - so they will
> not see a single country 
> - my country of origin. The problem comes if they
> look at the email headers 
> of my different emails: below I have cut and paste a
> part of the email 
> header:
> 
> Received: from hotmail.com ([65.54.229.28]) by
> mc12-f31.hotmail.com with 
> Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Mon, 17 Oct 2005
> 05:48:40 -0700
> 
> It has time zone information in it: -0700. From this
> they can infer what 
> area of the world I am in. My Ip will change accross
> the different emails - 
> my country will seemingly change across the
> different emails (they will 
> infer I am using some proxy service - my country
> couldn't possible change 
> that often). But the time zone reveals my actual
> area of the world. I think 
> the time zone info will be constant accross the
> different emails (the IP 
> will change tho). Is there any way around this? Am I
> interpreting things 
> right? I hope that someone can understand what I am
> on about. Kind regards,
> rhodo
> 
> 
> 



		
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