Re: evercookies.

2016-08-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/23/2016 11:41 PM, Tim wrote: You browse half a dozen addresses, using their DNS server, they can see all the queries coming from your IP. Somewhere amongst them is a server where they can set a cookie in a browser. Except, of course, for the fact that most servers aren't running browser

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-24 Thread jdow
On 2016-08-24 00:18, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/23/2016 11:41 PM, Tim wrote: You browse half a dozen addresses, using their DNS server, they can see all the queries coming from your IP. Somewhere amongst them is a server where they can set a cookie in a browser. Except, of course, for the fact tha

Re: F24, changing Thunar (Xfce) default archive manager

2016-08-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.08.2016, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > This shows both xarchiver and engrampa with xarchiver first, and the status > is 'user set'. I cannot see a way to reverse their order or make engrampa > the default archive manager. Hmm, maybe you just have to uninstall xarchiver? -- users mailing list

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-24 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 24 August 2016, Joe Zeff sent: > Except, of course, for the fact that most servers aren't running > browsers, and if they are, that cookie will identify them, not you. > The point I was making, and you didn't address is that there is no way > to use the DNS protocol to set o

Re: Browser Privacy

2016-08-24 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 23 August 2016, Drew Samson sent: > I too have found browsing doesn't work without scripting yet still > find NoScript essential. Here is my typical usage - like 5 minutes ago > on cnn.com: > > Full protection of noscript = page doesn't load. 23 scripts blocked. > > 1 click

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/24/2016 06:08 PM, Tim wrote: To be blunt, the points you missed, were: a. Not that it's the DNS protocol, but a DNS server, that was implicated. DNS servers can keep access logs, too. And, to be equally blunt, you were asserting that DNS servers could be used to set evercookies on your

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-24 Thread William Mattison
(I'm replying to the entire discussion as of Wednesday evening US Mountain time.) I'm now wondering if evercookies can really be fully blocked. I do want to block what I reasonably can. But as was pointed out, a lot of wanted web functionality needs cookies. So now I'm mainly focused on gett

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/24/2016 07:51 PM, William Mattison wrote: * It seems CCleaner is for windows but not Linux. I am indeed looking for windows-7 solutions, but I'm also looking for Fedora solutions. How can I clean out evercookies on my Fedora workstation? Have you checked bleachbit? I don't know if it

calendar program loops

2016-08-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
Upgraded to F24 and had a big surprise this morning, a mail queue clogged by over 400,000 messages. Root runs a nightly cronjob of "/usr/bin/calendar -a" to look at each users calendar file and send notices of upcoming events. The new version loops endlessly through all the users. If I run calen