[Noisebridge-discuss] Anonymity on blogs

Fred McHale binaryfever at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 21:41:29 UTC 2011


As Andy pointed out I already screwed up complete anonymity by posting in a
public forum.  Still an interesting exercise for anyone who doesn't know how
to do this, especially since I'm not the only one wanting to say something
about the situation.  Thanks for the advice.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Taylor Alexander <tlalexander at gmail.com>wrote:

> So I know there are lots of high tech fancy solutions, but what about just
> posting from a friend's laptop at a coffee shop? And then I imagine clearing
> cookies before, and as someone said using NoScript or something. (I don't
> actually know anything about this.)
>
> Is that a plausible "good enough" solution? Obviously not against a
> determined adversary, but he did mention he's not even sure they'd be
> determined.
>
> Or really, I'm just wondering, how "good" of a solution is that? Aside from
> the obvious "if they find out who his friend is they can find a link back to
> him."
>
> -Taylor
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org>wrote:
>
>> Casey Callendrello writes:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> For better anonymity, the Tor Project now recommends using the Tor
>> Browser Bundle; apart from reducing remote sites' ability to query your
>> browser to learn things about you, it tries to make the browser
>> population of Tor users more homogeneous.
>>
>> --
>> Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org>      |  No haiku patents
>>     http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/        |  means I've no incentive to
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