On Thu 20 February 2014 15:27:33 Neal H. Walfield wrote: > Why do you think the only use for a mobile phone is to make calls? If > I only make a data connection and am careful to tunnel all of my data > via Tor, then this identification method is useful. > > Neal
Err, right. For that usecase it might work - until you do *anything* that gives away your ID, which is even more easy in internet than in a GSM call (think searching for 2 or 3 topics on google which are specific to you. Or visiting 2 or 3 specific websites, maybe even in a certain specific usage pattern. Obviously you can't use email or anything like that. And google [and others] might be able to identify you from your typing style and rhythm into the search term textfield already). And no, you probably can't use a VPN to have only encrypted data transferred over the air. I don't think there are any free and open VPN endpoints available. /j -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above page got scrapped due to resignation(!!), so here some supplementary links:) http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii/ (German)
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