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Re: [tor-talk] Anonymity of RSS readers



Hi

Am Montag, den 22.09.2014, 14:57 +0200 schrieb Jan Reister:
> Il 21/09/2014 13:49, Christian Stadelmann ha scritto:
> > b) using Tor
> > This is a bad idea too since I regularly fetch some hundred RSS/Atom
> > files, some of them via unencrypted HTTP. This would clearly undermine
> > all anonymity provided by tor. 
> 
> Do you mean that the hundreds rss feeds are a unique fingerprint to you?

Yes, I meant that.

> 
> > What can I do?
> > 
> > I have only one slight idea of a solution: Use a RSS reader which
> > fetches all files via tor with a random lag between [1]. It MUST load all
> > content (images, ...) instantly OR remove and never display it.
> 
> Have you considered a web-based, self-hosted rss reader such as tt-rss?
> You can effectively separate the act of updating the feeds from the act
> of actually reading them.
> 
> http://tt-rss.org
> 

Thanks. Looks like I'll try that.


Using IsolateDestAddr is not an option since this would be my web
browser opening a new circuit for every domain/IP I connect to. This
would be something like denial of service for tor (at least the local
tor daemon).

Chris

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