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The Tor Browser Bundle already comes with a bunch of hacks to make users more difficult to track. I suppose they could improve on that until you're no longer id
by kijin 12y ago
The Tor Browser Bundle already comes with a bunch of hacks to make users more difficult to track. I suppose they could improve on that until you're no longer identifiable on something like EFF's Panopticlick [1] or Samy Kamkar's Evercookie [2].
For example, isolate each tab, nuke all tracking cookies by default, clear all local storage at a regular interval, access different sites using different circuits, and only allow JS to access a minimum of information about the system. Even better, expose fake, generic, but slightly varying lists of system fonts, plugins, and other information. (Fake information is better than disallowing access altogether, because the latter looks too suspicious.)
Of course, none of this will keep you anonymous if you log into Facebook using Tor... but at least the browser could make it extremely difficult for anyone to find out that the person who is visiting unrelated-website.com is the same person who just logged into Facebook. Automatically switching circuits when you visit a new site would probably do wonders in this regard, though I'm not sure how well Tor can handle that.
[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/
[2] http://samy.pl/evercookie/ http://samy.pl/evercookie/
- schoen 12y agoThe Tor Browser developers have all of this as an explicit goal: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ They still have more work to do to get there, of course -- it's a challenging target!