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GNU/Linux free software tools to preserve your online privacy, anonymity and security (FSM)

GNU/Linux free software tools to preserve your online privacy, anonymity and security (FSM)

Posted Jul 9, 2008 1:22 UTC (Wed) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: GNU/Linux free software tools to preserve your online privacy, anonymity and security (FSM) by smithj
Parent article: GNU/Linux free software tools to preserve your online privacy, anonymity and security (FSM)

Indeed; my problem with the article is in the way people misuse and misrepresent what Tor
does. There is this anonymity = security misconception among the general public, and the onus
is on the article to make a clear distinction between the two.

Given what we know people actually send over Tor (unencrypted!), the header-level anonymity
they get from Tor can be essentially useless if the payload contains enough identifying
information.


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