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Browsers are really where privacy needs to come from. There's only so much a browser can do against someone who can follow your IP address around. What we real
by gaius 9y ago
Browsers are really where privacy needs to come from.
There's only so much a browser can do against someone who can follow your IP address around. What we really need is ISPs who randomize what the server sees from their pool of IPs and NAT it internally.
- pacala 9y agoOr a VPN. Then again, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint and it's game over again.
- dx034 9y agobrowsers could prevent fingerprinting. They could randomize information enough so that they still have the important bits but cannot easily be tracked.
- tyingq 9y agoIt is a war of escalation though. You can be tracked via 304 responses and etags, for example. Fixing those client side isn't really practical.
- enraged_camel 9y agoYou don't need to prevent tracking completely. You just need to make it enough of a hassle so that it becomes too impractical or too expensive to do at scale.
- criddell 9y agoAnd then the ISP comes along and adds a super cookie to your traffic. It's ISPs that worry me the most. They see all the places you connect to. Even if you use https, they still know the endpoints.
- pacala 9y agoISPs can't add cookies to encrypted traffic going into a VPN relay.
- mikegerwitz 9y agoPlacing trust in your ISP isn't a good decision, even if they are mandated by law---there's always bad actors, violating the law might be worth it depending on the penalty, and there's law enforcement / government warrant/subpoena power.
- nottorp 9y agoThat would remove any way that you had to run a server on your home machines - trade one freedom for another?
- gaius 9y agoStatic IP is already an optional extra on most UK ISPs, so most people would lose nothing
- nottorp 9y agoIt's an optional extra just about anywhere, but most routers have dyndns or some equivalent built in these days, and besides your address changes so seldom that you can run a server for a small group by just telling them the new IP when it changes.
- gaius 9y agoWell, it's a trade-off. Personally I just use cloud VM now and don't run a home server anymore (previously I had DynDNS and would SSH X11 tunnel into my IRIX box from outside).