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Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo



On Thursday 11 October 2007, Robert Hogan wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2007 13:20:31 Pat Double wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > > >   You should use RefControl <
> > > >   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953 > to spoof
> > > >   referrers headers, not Polipo, as RefControl does HTTPS and HTTP.
> > >
> > > Yep.  In all cases, doing things in the browser is better than doing
> > > them in the proxy.
> > >
> > > However, I understand that Pat is trying to be at least somewhat
> > > browser-agnostic.
> >
> > I'm not sure my goal of providing more than Firefox as a web browser is a
> > good idea. It is known that Tor is not enough to make you anonymous,
> > hence all these extensions that are installed in Firefox. The problem is
> > that not all of the same features are available on Konqueror or links. I
> > can't remove Konqueror since it also does file management, but I think
> > links I should remove. And the desktop link to Konq may need to be
> > removed as well.
>
> Keeping track of all the things you should turn off or get a proxy to tweak
> makes my feeble head hurt.
>
> Turn off:
> Plugins, Java, Javascript, ads
>
> Tweak:
> Referrers
>
> Um, what else? I'm confused. We need a list.

No kidding :) I did find Konqueror has the features that are needed (I think, 
we need a list.) I should do more research before sending email, but TorK 
indeed disables the necessary things and Konqueror supports AdBlock filters 
so I added the same filter for FireFox AdBlock Plus to Konqueror. I kept 
links as anonym made a good point the only users running links most likely 
know what they are doing.

-- 
Pat Double, pat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Ye must be born again." - John 3:7

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