[tor-talk] Question about Circuit Separation

CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA cannon at cannon-ciota.info
Thu Mar 10 12:00:57 UTC 2016


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> This is a question about Tor Browser in specific.
> 
> I've found a number of websites [0] [1] [2] that explicitly warn of
> visiting your personal website over tor. The explanation is always that
> if you "access other sites in the same session", an eavesdropper would
> deduce that it was the owner of the (little-read) personal site.
> 
> Doesn't Tor Browser use a new circuit for each domain? Is the advice
> faulty or am I missing something?

I think this advice was aimed for the time before Tor Browser utilized 
circuit isolation for each website. However you should still be aware 
that tracking cookies could contaminate the other circuits within the 
same browser session.

Cannon C.
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