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Scoundrel 5 months ago
According to the Tor Project, websites have always been able to identify the 2.5% Linux minority, even with OS spoofing in HTTP headers and even with Javascript disabled. In other words, the only effects of OS spoofing in HTTP headers was creating problems for user experience and providing a false sense of OS anonymity.
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Leo Wandersleb leo@nostr.info 5 months ago
Shit! An issue that was discussed since 5 years among a broad group of experts and it's actually more nuanced than I thought from reading 2min about it. Who would have thought? 🤔
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Scoundrel 5 months ago
Eh, don't beat yourself up about it. We are all probably just LARPing as cyber outlaws anyway. If the authorities were really concerned about identifying and harming us then we would probably be completely screwed due to infosec mistakes completely unrelated to the design of the Tor Browser.
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