The short answer is Yes, we've looked into it. New Identity removes
evercookies.
The long answer is
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#new-identity and
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#identifier-linkability
The footnote is Please help us test this shit
of your VM and nothing
else.
Perhaps tor should move to a tor browser VM instead of just an app?
From: Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com
To: Tor-Talk tor-talk@lists.torproject.org
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 2:15 PM
Subject: [tor-talk] Evercookies / supercookies
Hi Joe,
Great questions. I was also wondering how these claims on the New Identity
button works in this case.
If it is the case, which it may be, this seems to or would seem to exceed
my expectations just as it may yours.
On Monday, May 14, 2012, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
On 5/14/2012 1:56 PM,
Let's continue speculating instead of reading any documentation.
That's totally a productive use of everyone's time.
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#new-identity
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#identifier-linkability
Thus spake Matthew Kaufman
Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfs...@gmx.com):
How, pray tell, does clicking New Identity remove evercookies from
12 - 15 possible locations? The cache isn't the only place
evercookies can be stored. How does it remove ANY cookies at all?
Does that necessarily clear LSOs, clear different
Thus spake Mike Perry (mikepe...@torproject.org):
Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfs...@gmx.com):
How, pray tell, does clicking New Identity remove evercookies from
12 - 15 possible locations? The cache isn't the only place
evercookies can be stored. How does it remove ANY cookies at all?
Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfs...@gmx.com):
On 5/14/2012 1:56 PM, Mike Perry wrote:
The short answer is Yes, we've looked into it. New Identity removes
evercookies
The footnote is Please help us test this shit in new releases. We just
had a race condition on the cache that allowed
On 5/14/2012 3:52 PM, Mike Perry wrote:
Let's continue speculating instead of reading any documentation.
That's totally a productive use of everyone's time.
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#new-identity
