Re: [tor-talk] TBB users, please give 1 minute of your time for science

2017-04-25 Thread cube
> On 25/04/17 05:37 AM, c...@browserprint.info wrote: > > I'm a PhD student. > > I have no employer other than my university. > > All my work is done with the intention of publishing it in academic > > journals, conferences, my blog, and my thesis. > > Going to the site we can see this project

Re: [tor-talk] TBB uses orange Firefox icon in Linux panel

2017-04-25 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 04/24/2017 08:47 PM, goody2shoes wrote: On 04/24/2017 05:43 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: In Mint 18.1, TBB 6.5.1 was installed to /home/user/torbrowser/. Now updated to 6.5.2 - still same issue. I only have one TBB launcher (icon) - on the desktop (nowhere else) & it uses the correct green TBB glo

Re: [tor-talk] TBB users, please give 1 minute of your time for science

2017-04-25 Thread Mirimir
On 04/25/2017 04:26 PM, krishna e bera wrote: > On 25/04/17 05:37 AM, c...@browserprint.info wrote: >> I'm a PhD student. >> I have no employer other than my university. >> All my work is done with the intention of publishing it in academic >> journals, conferences, my blog, and my thesis. > > Goi

Re: [tor-talk] TBB users, please give 1 minute of your time for science

2017-04-25 Thread krishna e bera
On 25/04/17 05:37 AM, c...@browserprint.info wrote: I'm a PhD student. I have no employer other than my university. All my work is done with the intention of publishing it in academic journals, conferences, my blog, and my thesis. Going to the site we can see this project purports to be run by

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: TOR problems - seriously PLEASE HELP ME!

2017-04-25 Thread unpublished
Thank you for your help and specific answer! I do not know yet how to put my reply (our correspondence question-answer) to everyone on the TOR blog (different from the standard forum)? I'm afraid that something of my actions it is a bad - doing something wrong.? I do not want to impose your pol

Re: [tor-talk] TBB users, please give 1 minute of your time for science

2017-04-25 Thread cube
> Hi! > > I've been making those tests on your website multiple times with the TBB but > most of the > time I get a unique fingerprint even when re-doing the test at different > times with the same > browser. > > There also some wrong measurements such as the Facebook button that gets > labe

[tor-talk] Fwd: TOR problems - seriously PLEASE HELP ME!

2017-04-25 Thread Andre Mankel
>A good idea would be to set the first/last COUNTRY (download/send data) of the final node - as many sites do not support connections from foreign countries. As Jonathan mentioned in a reply to your post already, you are able to define a set of allowed exit countries (ie poland only) by following t

Re: [tor-talk] TBB users, please give 1 minute of your time for science

2017-04-25 Thread Anders Andersson
On 25 April 2017 at 13:12, Lolint wrote: > I've been making those tests on your website multiple times with the TBB but > most of the > time I get a unique fingerprint even when re-doing the test at different > times with the same > browser. This is something worth pointing out. How does the cu

Re: [tor-talk] TBB users, please give 1 minute of your time for science

2017-04-25 Thread Lolint
Hi! I've been making those tests on your website multiple times with the TBB but most of the time I get a unique fingerprint even when re-doing the test at different times with the same browser. There also some wrong measurements such as the Facebook button that gets labeled as being blocked b

Re: [tor-talk] TBB users, please give 1 minute of your time for science

2017-04-25 Thread cube
I'm a PhD student. I have no employer other than my university. All my work is done with the intention of publishing it in academic journals, conferences, my blog, and my thesis. > David Olofsson: > > There is always a risk of bugs and exploits in the code. Having a security > > researcher study

Re: [tor-talk] TBB users, please give 1 minute of your time for science

2017-04-25 Thread Jeremy Rand
David Olofsson: > There is always a risk of bugs and exploits in the code. Having a security > researcher study these gives us better knowledge of the current flaws and > how to correct them. If you truly trust the browsers current security this > should have no downside, otherwise it is the path t

Re: [tor-talk] TBB users, please give 1 minute of your time for science

2017-04-25 Thread David Olofsson
There is always a risk of bugs and exploits in the code. Having a security researcher study these gives us better knowledge of the current flaws and how to correct them. If you truly trust the browsers current security this should have no downside, otherwise it is the path to improving it. //Sidju