[SGVLUG] Here's your sign...

[John E. Kreznar]

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Dustin Laurence <dustin at laurences.net> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 01:42:48PM -0700, Emerson, Tom wrote:

> > It is a "sign" that is dynamically generated each time it's accessed --
> > it basically extracts your IP, browser, OS, and possibly your ISP from
> > the HTTP header fields (or else looks up the ISP based on your IP...)

> Cute.  Such things are a nice way to check if your Tor installation is
> working--if it is, of course, the IP and SIP should be wildly wrong. :-)

And if you get it with a web-to-mail gateway, the browser and OS will
be, too.  If, further, the request to the gateway goes through a chain
of anonymizing remailers and the response comes back through newsgroup
alt.anonymous.messages, the whole transaction can be anonymous and
untraceable.

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
                      Politics is not the answer

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