Re: Torbutton : please offer better user agent choices

2010-02-13 Thread F. Fox
Mike Perry wrote: (snip) We are not in the habit of providing features that are demonstrably bad for anonymity for no reason, and I am certainly not going to give such work priority over much more important things such as improving the performance of the network as a whole (for ex, my latest work

Re: Torbutton : please offer better user agent choices

2010-02-13 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake and...@torproject.org (and...@torproject.org): > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:21AM -0500, twinkletoedtur...@safe-mail.net > wrote 5.1K bytes in 106 lines about: > : This has already been discussed previously, I was moving on to ask if > : this feature could be added, not debated. > >

Re: Torbutton : please offer better user agent choices

2010-02-13 Thread Flamsmark
> > I've recently had conversations with some activists in Europe who want > to run unpublished exit nodes (meaning they set PublishServerDescriptor > 0 in their torrc). Of course, one risk is the only people using this > unlisted exit node are those in the social graph of the activists. > Slight

Re: Torbutton : please offer better user agent choices

2010-02-12 Thread andrew
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:21AM -0500, twinkletoedtur...@safe-mail.net wrote 5.1K bytes in 106 lines about: : This has already been discussed previously, I was moving on to ask if : this feature could be added, not debated. The simple answer right now is no. There is exactly one person workin

Re: Torbutton : please offer better user agent choices

2010-02-12 Thread Michael Holstein
Perhaps the best choice would be the one used by the most people. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/tracking-by-user-agent Cheers, Michael Holstein Cleveland State University *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@to

Re: Torbutton : please offer better user agent choices

2010-02-12 Thread twinkletoedturtle
Marco Bonetti: "I'm not getting the point of why there should be choice: if the users using this feature start changing they UA, the blending will be a lot more weak." This has already been discussed previously, I was moving on to ask if this feature could be added, not debated. "If you really n

Re: Torbutton : please offer better user agent choices

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 02/01/2010 01:09 PM, G-Lo ♂ wrote: > twinkletoedtur...@safe-mail.net a écrit : >> In light of the Panopticlick thread and this question being asked in > the past with no reasonable answer given via Torbutton's author, I > appeal to Torbutton's author: >> Please provide us with more of a choice i

Re: Torbutton : please offer better user agent choices

2010-02-01 Thread G-Lo ♂
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 twinkletoedtur...@safe-mail.net a écrit : > In light of the Panopticlick thread and this question being asked in the past with no reasonable answer given via Torbutton's author, I appeal to Torbutton's author: > > Please provide us with more of a ch

Re: Torbutton : please offer better user agent choices

2010-02-01 Thread Marco Bonetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, could you dig a little more on the need of a choice of different user agents? I'm not getting the point of why there should be choice: if the users using this feature start changing they UA, the blending will be a lot more weak. If you really need

Torbutton : please offer better user agent choices

2010-02-01 Thread twinkletoedturtle
In light of the Panopticlick thread and this question being asked in the past with no reasonable answer given via Torbutton's author, I appeal to Torbutton's author: Please provide us with more of a choice in user agents. The user agent in Torbutton is not updated often enough and we should hav