[tor-talk] Questions on latest linux torbundle

tarbaby at mixnym.net tarbaby at mixnym.net
Mon Oct 29 17:09:13 UTC 2012


Can anybody speak to these issues please? Thanks alot.

> Hello Tortians and thanks for this interesting software.
> 
> I am testing out the latest linux torbundle. I have a few questions on this.
> If I change the firefox homepage to about:blank and select "when tor browser
> starts display a blank page" it gets reset after I run the start-tor-browser
> script a few times. Isn't this bad for anonymity because going to the same
> home page every time is a nice fat bullseye to be able to correlate a
> webpage of known size with every tor startup. Why are these settings being
> overridden and is this a problem?
> 
> Noscript 2.5.8 that comes in the torbundle. In the Noscript options-advanced
> tab-do not filter objects coming from these sites, it seems impossible to
> remove .hulu.com and .youtube.com. Isn't this bad because youtube is
> embedded on nearly every site and isn't this an attack vector? I don't want
> youtube enabled. I don't want anything permitted by default and I changed
> noscript settings but they keep getting reset.
> 

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