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Re: email with Tor
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- Subject: Re: email with Tor
- From: jed c <n_o_t_here@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 03:04:24 -0700 (PDT)
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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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