As I've been contemplating this over the last few days it occurred to me
tools to deal with this effectively are readily at our disposal. The
bullet-proof way to deal with this is related to what I wrote a few days
ago. As I mentioned, I do my web browsing inside virtualbox and
virtualbox has
I know you said you no longer use AdBlock Plus, but they have
categorically stated that they protect against evercookies.
"If the last paragraph isn’t explicit enough for you, here you go:
Adblock Plus privacy protection (a.k.a. EasyPrivacy filter list)
doesn’t care whether it is cookies,
On 08/23/2016 12:26 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
On 08/23/2016 09:32 AM, Drew Samson wrote:
On 08/23/2016 10:03 AM, stan wrote:
So, this brought evercookies to my attention. I noticed that even when
Are you using google dns? (8.8.8.8)
How would google dns go about setting an evercookie
On 08/23/2016 10:03 AM, stan wrote:
So, this brought evercookies to my attention. I noticed that even when
offline, there was a google cookie in my cookie directory, even though
google is not whitelisted. So, I deleted it. And, lo and behold, it
came back. Like that old song, "The very
Just about every site I look at, doesn't work (at all, or usefully)
without scripting. And usually it's not just scripting from the site,
but it's scripting from half a dozen or more different services, some of
which will chainload more crap from yet another set of services. Even
if security
Hello,
Perhaps this will help someone in their quest for greater online privacy
and enhance their computer security. I'm simply trying to give back to
the list for all the help I've received over the years. This is what I
do...
I use Firefox simply because it allows me to stay in control of
Thank you for the info.
On 8/14/2016 8:23 PM, jd1008 wrote:
Some things you might want to know:
1. When you boot windows on the real HW, it creates a HW profile,
let's name it X.
2. When you configure the windows partition (Under Linux) to be a
drive for a VBox VM,
and you boot that
Thanks for the helpful responses. Now to your questions:
On 8/14/2016 3:30 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Why do you use hardware RAID? There is little or no advantage and some
disadvantages in doing that. Software RAID works extremely well on
Linux.
Since the capability is built into many
Hello,
I've been using Fedora inside Virtual Box on a Windows 7 host for a few
years now so I can learn Fedora / Linux before taking the plunge and
unplug from Windows more permanently. I think I'm ready to take the
plunge and build a new desktop with Fedora 24 being my primary os and at
