Re: Browser dos/don'ts ( was Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo)

2007-10-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
: a bobnjoe browser : For the crass foreigners among us -- what does this idiom mean? Bob Joe's Bait, Tackle, and Web Browsers [...] Sorry for the confusion. Quite the opposite -- thanks to you for the snippet of local colour. Juliusz

Re: Browser dos/don'ts ( was Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo)

2007-10-17 Thread phobos
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:54:30AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 0.1K bytes in 5 lines about: : a bobnjoe browser : : For the crass foreigners among us -- what does this idiom mean? It's a phobosism as a result of growing up in a rural area. I meant it as a very small population of users.

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-15 Thread Pat Double
On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: It's fairly easy to convert the adblock plus 'easylist' into a polipo forbidden file. Do you have a script you'd be willing to share? I'd be glad to link to it from the Polipo page. Juliusz

Re: Browser dos/don'ts ( was Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo)

2007-10-15 Thread Robert Hogan
On Sunday 14 October 2007 19:50:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:21:40AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 0.9K bytes in 30 lines about: : Do: : Spoof user-agent (is this necessary even with javascript disabled?) : (browser) Arguably, unless you're using BobnJoe's

Re: Browser dos/don'ts ( was Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo)

2007-10-15 Thread Kasimir Gabert
People will know that you are in the UAE if you are browsing websites that are only for people and used by people in the UAE. Kasimir Gabert On 10/15/07, Robert Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 14 October 2007 19:50:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:21:40AM +0100,

Re: Browser dos/don'ts ( was Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo)

2007-10-15 Thread Kasimir Gabert
On 10/15/07, Robert Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 14 October 2007 19:50:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:21:40AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 0.9K bytes in 30 lines about: : Do: : Spoof user-agent (is this necessary even with javascript disabled?)

Re: Browser dos/don'ts ( was Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo)

2007-10-14 Thread phobos
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:21:40AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 0.9K bytes in 30 lines about: : Do: : Spoof user-agent (is this necessary even with javascript disabled?) (browser) Arguably, unless you're using BobnJoe's browser, any of the popular ones should provide sufficient numbers

Browser dos/don'ts ( was Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo)

2007-10-13 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 12 October 2007 00:26:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:57:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 1.1K bytes in 29 lines about: : Keeping track of all the things you should turn off or get a proxy to : tweak makes my feeble head hurt. The latest torbutton-dev

Re: Browser dos/don'ts ( was Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo)

2007-10-13 Thread TOR Admin (gpfTOR1)
Robert Hogan schrieb: Do: Spoof user-agent (is this necessary even with javascript disabled?) (browser) I think, it is nessecary. Do this job in browser, because no proxy can do it for SSL-encrypted stuff. And change the fake time by time. You may try showmyip with and without javascript. In

Re: Browser dos/don'ts ( was Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo)

2007-10-13 Thread Ben Wilhelm
TOR Admin (gpfTOR1) wrote: Robert Hogan schrieb: Do: Spoof user-agent (is this necessary even with javascript disabled?) (browser) I think, it is nessecary. Do this job in browser, because no proxy can do it for SSL-encrypted stuff. And change the fake time by time. I disagree. Don't do

Re: Browser dos/don'ts ( was Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo)

2007-10-13 Thread TOR Admin (gpfTOR1)
Ben Wilhelm schrieb: Pick the most common user-agent and use it. That's probably whatever the latest version of Firefox returns. Ok, I use (only a few examples): Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; sk-SK; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070824 Firefox/2.0.0.6 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; de-DE;

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-11 Thread Pat Double
On Thursday 11 October 2007, Robert Hogan wrote: On Wednesday 10 October 2007 13:20:31 Pat Double wrote: On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: You should use RefControl https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953 to spoof referrers headers, not Polipo,

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-11 Thread phobos
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:57:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 1.1K bytes in 29 lines about: : Keeping track of all the things you should turn off or get a proxy to tweak : makes my feeble head hurt. The latest torbutton-dev releases handle most of this for you. -- Andrew

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-10 Thread Pat Double
On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: You should use RefControl https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953 to spoof referrers headers, not Polipo, as RefControl does HTTPS and HTTP. Yep. In all cases, doing things in the browser is better than doing them

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-10 Thread Pat Double
On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: It's fairly easy to convert the adblock plus 'easylist' into a polipo forbidden file. Do you have a script you'd be willing to share? I'd be glad to link to it from the Polipo page. If phobos doesn't have a script I'll most likely

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-10 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
If phobos doesn't have a script I'll most likely write one. The problem would be that the 'easylist' also includes a whitelist at the end, I assume that all patterns are scanned from start to end and if something is blacklisted AND whitelisted, it is allowed. AFAIK Polipo only provides a

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-10 Thread Pat Double
On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: If phobos doesn't have a script I'll most likely write one. The problem would be that the 'easylist' also includes a whitelist at the end, I assume that all patterns are scanned from start to end and if something is blacklisted AND

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-10 Thread phobos
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:32:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 1.1K bytes in 39 lines about: : Do you have a script you'd be willing to share? I'd be glad to link : to it from the Polipo page. : : If phobos doesn't have a script I'll most likely write one. The problem would : be that the

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-09 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
What about censoring ETag, Last-Modified and If-Modified-Since ? Those are used to send info to the client that will be send back to the server, hence something can be encoded there to identify the machine. Don't censor ETag and Last-Modified under any circumstances. Polipo will survive an

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-09 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
You should use RefControl https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953 to spoof referrers headers, not Polipo, as RefControl does HTTPS and HTTP. Yep. In all cases, doing things in the browser is better than doing them in the proxy. However, I understand that Pat is trying to

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-09 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
It's fairly easy to convert the adblock plus 'easylist' into a polipo forbidden file. Do you have a script you'd be willing to share? I'd be glad to link to it from the Polipo page. Juliusz

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-08 Thread Pat Double
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Any suggestion for additional censorings? Thanks for the info, I'll apply it. What about censoring ETag, Last-Modified and If-Modified-Since ? Those are used to send info to the client that will be send back to the server, hence something

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-08 Thread jeffery statin
Juliusz Chroboczek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: censorReferer=maybe Yep. This is a reasonable compromise -- doesn't leak too much memory while not breaking most sites. You should use RefControl https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953 to spoof referrers headers, not

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-07 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Hi, I am considering changing the Incognito LiveCD to use Polipo. Excellent news. Polipo config - https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/incognito/branches/polipo/root_overlay/etc/polipo/ First point -- you'll definitely want to set disableLocalInterface. Since you're running with no on-disk

Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-05 Thread Pat Double
Incognito is a Live CD aimed towards anonymity. (Links given below). I am considering changing the Incognito LiveCD to use Polipo. I have a branch with it enabled. Currently it is using a squid/privoxy combination. I need to know: 1. An appropriate polipo config. 2. Features in privoxy that

Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo

2007-10-05 Thread Pat Double
On Friday 05 October 2007, Andrew Del Vecchio wrote: 4: Yes. Also, if possible, have HTTP referers disabled as well. HTTP referers is being done in https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/incognito/branches/polipo/root_overlay/etc/polipo/config I did a search for AdBlock and found AdBlock and