NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
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Re: NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
#2I'm not understanding this. If I use the "Tor Browser Bundle" and never use that browser for anything but Tor, and never log in to anything on that browser, how can they track me?
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Re: NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
#4Yet another reason to purge cookies often :)
Everytime I log into a site that I want to buy something from, I always clear cache, cookies, logins before and after using that site.
Yes it can be a PITA, but I think that stops other sites from looking to see what WEB sites you really care about.
Re: NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
#5I'm not understanding this. If I use the "Tor Browser Bundle" and never use that browser for anything but Tor, and never log in to anything on that browser, how can they track me?
I’m not aware of any sandbox escape attack for the Tor browser, but I am no expert. If there is one, even limited, it’d probably be enough to figure out a way to track you down.
Re: NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
#6I'm not understanding this. If I use the "Tor Browser Bundle" and never use that browser for anything but Tor, and never log in to anything on that browser, how can they track me?
Does Tor Browser disable cookies? I think not.
You don’t have to login to be given a cookie that’s then stored and tracked across each new IP that Tor cycles through.
Re: NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
#7Yet another reason to purge cookies often :) Everytime I log into a site that I want to buy something from, I always clear cache, cookies, logins before and after using that site. Yes it can be a PITA, but I think that stops other sites from looking to see what WEB sites you really care about.
I've opted to just incognito the majority of my browsing. Likewise it's annoying to keep logging in and sometimes I wish I had something from my history. On the other hand, I never have to worry about cookies
Re: NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
#8I'm not understanding this. If I use the "Tor Browser Bundle" and never use that browser for anything but Tor, and never log in to anything on that browser, how can they track me?
because their target are not nerds using tor to access their own machines or random 4ch clones.
they target politicians, whistleblowers and journalists.
if you ever volunteered to organizations helping those you quickly Learn that group is not very tech literate, have cheap limited devices, skips instructions.
Re: NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
#9I'm not understanding this. If I use the "Tor Browser Bundle" and never use that browser for anything but Tor, and never log in to anything on that browser, how can they track me?
You only have to mess up once.
Google has programs where they can identify budding extremists and correlate behavior to medical diagnoses without HIPAA exposure.
If your secret weird shit that you’re doing with Tor is of interest, they’ll eventually get a profile. Using Tor is like setting off the bat signal.
Re: NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
#10I'm not understanding this. If I use the "Tor Browser Bundle" and never use that browser for anything but Tor, and never log in to anything on that browser, how can they track me?
I’m not aware of any sandbox escape attack for the Tor browser, but I am no expert. If there is one, even limited, it’d probably be enough to figure out a way to track you down.
The only way to anonymize it enough, also defeating any attempt at cookie/malware injection to me would be to create a VM with the strict necessary to run Tor browser and clone it for single use, that is, a script that clones the VM, opens it, let you use Tor browser, then as you close the browser the VM is also closed and deleted. The script could also create the next VM changing bits here and there for added anonymization (OS and browser signature, screen and window size, mouse settings, etc) while the old one is still running, to save time.