[Noisebridge-discuss] Anonymity on blogs

[Casey Callendrello]

Tor is a good call, but insufficient against a determined adversary.
There is also a lot of tracking information your browser can expose. If
you want to be truly paranoid, you should post on a completely different
computer. For example, you can be fairly accurately de-anonymized by
tracking the your language + timezone + clock skew + installed plugins,
all of which can be determined using Javascript.

A reasonable way to defeat this is to use TOR, create a completely fresh
Firefox profile, and install NoScript to block all Javascript.

Also, I think I know who you're posting about, and they definitely have
some skill in the browser-deanonymization department.

--Casey



On 09/14/2011 02:07 PM, Fred McHale wrote:
> Noisebridgers,
>
> I am wondering if anyone has tips for posting comments on a blog
> anonymously.  I work at a tech company that recently started a pretty
> lame negative ad campaign against a competitor.  One of the execs
> wrote about it on the company external blog and I would like to post
> my thoughts in the comments without any fear of retribution (I'm not
> sure if they would but I don't want to take any chances).  Besides
> posting under a fake name/email and doing it outside of the company
> intranet I wanted to get your opinions.  Would TOR help out in this
> situation?  Any ideas?
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list
> Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/attachments/20110914/e4ef48cb/attachment-0003.html>