Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2016-12-08 Thread intrigeri
anonym: > intrigeri: >> So I hereby propose we stop tweaking the HTTP User-Agent sent >> by htpdate. > I agree. https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12023 ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-12-02 Thread intrigeri
hi, adrelanos wrote (01 Dec 2012 15:53:06 GMT) : Using Tor Browser through command line to view and safe the website. This should perfectly emulate Tor Browser. Any idea how Firefox could be interfaced? As far I know it has no command line option for this. I guess Selenium should allow to do

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-11-28 Thread intrigeri
Hi, (Let's get rid of this old stalled discussion and free some mental space of ours.) intrigeri wrote (21 Oct 2012 08:57:55 GMT) : anonym wrote (15 Oct 2012 13:14:24 GMT) : OTOH it becomes easier to fingerprint Tails users on their side of the pipe, which arguably is worse. Three *full*

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-11-28 Thread adrelanos
intrigeri: This page reads fingerprinting based on the known traffic pattern when fetching the full page of any of the members of Tails' HTP source pools is not possible; I've always understood, in this sentence, the full page as meaning the page + all external resources it requires. Ping?

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-11-28 Thread adrelanos
adrelanos: intrigeri: This page reads fingerprinting based on the known traffic pattern when fetching the full page of any of the members of Tails' HTP source pools is not possible; I've always understood, in this sentence, the full page as meaning the page + all external resources it

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-10-21 Thread intrigeri
Hi, anonym wrote (15 Oct 2012 13:14:24 GMT) : OTOH it becomes easier to fingerprint Tails users on their side of the pipe, which arguably is worse. Three *full* fetches of known web sites are *much* more distinguishable than three header fetches of known web sites, so Tails' startup traffic

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-10-15 Thread anonym
14/10/12 14:28, intrigeri wrote: Hi, Ague Mill wrote (01 Oct 2012 09:27:09 GMT) : I think the overhead of not using '--head' and doing a full GET would be marginal. It would make it at least a little bit harder to distinguish from other requests. Fully agreed: this would make Tails'

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-10-14 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Ague Mill wrote (01 Oct 2012 09:27:09 GMT) : I think the overhead of not using '--head' and doing a full GET would be marginal. It would make it at least a little bit harder to distinguish from other requests. Fully agreed: this would make Tails' htpdate harder to distinguish from the TBB

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-10-03 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Jacob Appelbaum wrote (01 Oct 2012 01:09:48 GMT): [ about curl ] In some testing we did, we found that it leaked DNS basically everywhere unless you used some kind of HTTP proxy. :( I'm curious what version of curl exposes that, and: * Does curl's socks5h:// acts like socks5:// ?

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-10-03 Thread David Fine
My first post! Speaking of the Appelbaum, check out this time daemon he wrote: https://github.com/ioerror/tlsdate It's not in debian repos, which is a strike against using it for tails. But leaking DNS is pretty bad. --D On 10/3/12 2:47 PM, intrigeri wrote: Hi, Jacob Appelbaum wrote (01 Oct

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-10-02 Thread adrelanos
Jacob Appelbaum: intrigeri: Hi, adrelanos wrote (30 Sep 2012 22:25:31 GMT) : I am wondering about this line in /etc/default/htpdate: HTTP_USER_AGENT=$(/usr/local/bin/getTorbuttonUserAgent) FTR, this is left from the times when htpdate did run wget in the clear (without going through Tor).

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-10-02 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
adrelanos: Jacob Appelbaum: intrigeri: Hi, adrelanos wrote (30 Sep 2012 22:25:31 GMT) : I am wondering about this line in /etc/default/htpdate: HTTP_USER_AGENT=$(/usr/local/bin/getTorbuttonUserAgent) FTR, this is left from the times when htpdate did run wget in the clear (without going

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-10-02 Thread adrelanos
Jacob Appelbaum: adrelanos: Jacob Appelbaum: intrigeri: Hi, adrelanos wrote (30 Sep 2012 22:25:31 GMT) : I am wondering about this line in /etc/default/htpdate: HTTP_USER_AGENT=$(/usr/local/bin/getTorbuttonUserAgent) FTR, this is left from the times when htpdate did run wget in the

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-10-02 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
adrelanos: Thus my suggestions: - Keep only header. Safe users traffic, Tor's traffic and website traffic. - Drop the user agent setting, it only gives a false sense of being in the same anonymity set as Tor Button. That is not the goal - the point is that you will say, drop that and no one

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-10-01 Thread Ague Mill
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 07:18:00AM +0200, intrigeri wrote: Since you are also using curl and only download the header, does faking the Tor Button user agent provide any additional benefit? Couldn't the server quite easily distinguish from real Tor Button users and tails_htp curl users?

[Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-09-30 Thread adrelanos
Hello, I am wondering about this line in /etc/default/htpdate: HTTP_USER_AGENT=$(/usr/local/bin/getTorbuttonUserAgent) Since you are also using curl and only download the header, does faking the Tor Button user agent provide any additional benefit? Couldn't the server quite easily distinguish

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-09-30 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
adrelanos: Hello, I am wondering about this line in /etc/default/htpdate: HTTP_USER_AGENT=$(/usr/local/bin/getTorbuttonUserAgent) Since you are also using curl and only download the header, does faking the Tor Button user agent provide any additional benefit? Couldn't the server quite

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-09-30 Thread adrelanos
Jacob Appelbaum: I'd be interested in using the same headers for tlsdate - so whatever you guys end up using - lets try to make them look similar? curl is already a good choice. Supports socks proxy settings, ssl certificate pinning, strict https, tlsv1, only header... That everyone uses the

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-09-30 Thread intrigeri
Hi, adrelanos wrote (30 Sep 2012 22:25:31 GMT) : I am wondering about this line in /etc/default/htpdate: HTTP_USER_AGENT=$(/usr/local/bin/getTorbuttonUserAgent) FTR, this is left from the times when htpdate did run wget in the clear (without going through Tor). Since you are also using curl

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-09-30 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
intrigeri: Hi, adrelanos wrote (30 Sep 2012 22:25:31 GMT) : I am wondering about this line in /etc/default/htpdate: HTTP_USER_AGENT=$(/usr/local/bin/getTorbuttonUserAgent) FTR, this is left from the times when htpdate did run wget in the clear (without going through Tor). Since you