[tor-talk] Webpage autorefresh weakens onion routing

2013-07-02 Thread Mark Yaler
Hi, This seems like the most appropriate Tor list for this issue, but move the discussion if not... This isn't a Tor bug, but rather a security problem that occurs to Tor users due to an inadvertent anti-anonymity property of popular webpages. Let's say you open webpage X, which automatically

Re: [tor-talk] Webpage autorefresh weakens onion routing

2013-07-02 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 06:45:24PM -0700, Mark Yaler wrote: Let's say you open webpage X, which automatically refreshes every minute. But the user doesn't immediately realize this problem. Variations of this attack are in various research papers, e.g.