Re: Tips for privacy and security
Send everything to .macromedia down a black hole (/dev/null)
Also use SRWARE Iron instead of Chromium - see Chrome vs Iron
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industrialphreak wrote:
Any incite on this or other additional paths to clutter dumps i might want to trash once a week by manual script or possibly if i can figure the wonders of crontab/task add to a simple script?
You can use bleachbit to clean these folders (of course, you have to install bleachbit first):
bleachbit -c chromium.cache chromium.cookies chromium.current_session chromium.dom
chromium.form_history chromium.history chromium.search_engines chromium.vacuum
bleachbit -c flash.cache flash.cookiestradetaxfree wrote:
Also use SRWARE Iron instead of Chromium - see Chrome vs Iron
There is not much difference between Chromium and Iron, just some privacy settings.
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Tunafish wrote:
There is not much difference between Chromium and Iron, just some privacy settings.
but that's what this thread is about, isn't it?
Pancakes
1 cup all-purpose flour, 2 eggs, 1 cup of milk, 3 tbs water, 1-2 tsp of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 apple, few grains of salt
Preheat your pan or griddle to about medium heat. Slowly combine the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, work in sliced apple. Each pancake should take about a minute or so on each side. Serve with plum jam, maple syrup, or powdered sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour, 2 eggs, 1 cup of milk, 3 tbs water, 1-2 tsp of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 apple, few grains of salt
Preheat your pan or griddle to about medium heat. Slowly combine the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, work in sliced apple. Each pancake should take about a minute or so on each side. Serve with plum jam, maple syrup, or powdered sugar
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Use scroogle.org as your search engine instead of google. (Sorry if this has been posted before I didn't bother reading the whole thread)
..Oh and stop using chromium/google stuff if you worry about privacy
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beadmaze wrote:
Tunafish wrote:There is not much difference between Chromium and Iron, just some privacy settings.
but that's what this thread is about, isn't it?
I thought there wasn't any privacy difference between Iron and Chromium with all communication with the mothership turned off?
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In fact, I read often enough, that Iron isn't as secure as they say it is. Chromium is your best choice.
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i don't really like the iron myself, but it seems more uptodate than the chromium from the stable repos.
and i agree that there might be some unknown security bugs.
when it comes to privacy there's this comparison on their website:
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srwar … s_iron.php
@tradetaxfree > which is chrome [not chromium] vs. iron
not sure, but maybe one can replace iron with chromium in this comparison...
anyone able to confirm this?
Last edited by beadmaze (2011-11-08 20:48:09)
Pancakes
1 cup all-purpose flour, 2 eggs, 1 cup of milk, 3 tbs water, 1-2 tsp of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 apple, few grains of salt
Preheat your pan or griddle to about medium heat. Slowly combine the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, work in sliced apple. Each pancake should take about a minute or so on each side. Serve with plum jam, maple syrup, or powdered sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour, 2 eggs, 1 cup of milk, 3 tbs water, 1-2 tsp of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 apple, few grains of salt
Preheat your pan or griddle to about medium heat. Slowly combine the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, work in sliced apple. Each pancake should take about a minute or so on each side. Serve with plum jam, maple syrup, or powdered sugar
Re: Tips for privacy and security
Quick newbie question about these cookies and LSO's. I know deleting is good overall, but when they are accepted and put on your computer, isnt the damage, as far as tracking, already done?
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cphayes0882 wrote:
but when they are accepted and put on your computer, isnt the damage, as far as tracking, already done?
If they allow some sort of a cross site tracking, then yes, it is. Everything else is irrelevant, as it only exists for the current session.
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Ahhh ok, I saw a tool for firefox to prevent this kind of thing. Thanks Awebb as usual for your quick and exact answer. Ill google some more about cookies and find some info before I continue to ask questions about this, dont wanna fill up a thread with questions already answered. 
I am completely in the dark when it comes to internet security, which Im not proud of. Been recently trying to change that. This thread has been a major help. Complacency kills
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Try adding UA Control in there too. You can spoof your User Agent String.
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Move Firefox cache to RAM:
about:config
New key string: browser.cache.disk.parent_directory
Content: /dev/shm/firefox-cache
/dev/shm is some sort of a ramdisk, you can store data directly in the RAM instead the HDD. Make sure you don't put anything important into that folder, it dies on reboot.
This gives you, by the way, often enough a fair performance boost.
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Careful with the commercial privacy links, lain - these could be interpreted as spam. We already have plenty of evidence that you're a real person, so we can let this slide with a warning; if this had been your first post, we might have assumed you were a spambot and booted you.
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Has anyone been made aware that the more security configurations you make, the more easily trackable you are? It's sort of a privacy paradox; it might be better to use as many defaults as possible to blend in with the crowd, rather than try to separate yourself from it.
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I dont know how much you can trust these tools. Well they hide you for a while, but if someone wants to find you, it's game over. If you want your desired privacy use multiple email accounts with fake info, dont use sites like facebook, hi5, myspace and so on and that's it, no need to slow down your internet connection just to use a different proxy when downloading a picture or reading the news.
Re: Tips for privacy and security
Geeqie (image viewer) because it has thumbnail options like clearing the database, though this can be done manually or with f ex Bleachbit as well, and the option to disable the recent function.
Plus it is just a really good program for viewing large collections of files. For added privacy, you can make archives, I recommend .cbz, and then open them in GQ after mounting them or directly with a program like Okular (Supports up to 2GB .cbz files for me with encryption, provided I put them on a secondary (encrypted) disk that isn't busy.
Re: Tips for privacy and security
Since this is a security thread, I gotta mention that parcellite, the clipboard app, does not encrypt its contents, if you copy passwords and what not they'll be saved in plain text on your hard drive.
A ticket was open to request this feature, it is still being worked on.
Last edited by Aalis (2012-01-17 23:15:36)
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^meanwhile you can use parcellite's "clear" option after copying anything sensitive.
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Thank you TunaFish for this guide.
Some really amazing addons that I've always overlooked. I will bookmark this and take a deeper look 
Thank you again.
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Really good tips.
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Re: Tips for privacy and security
If you want to get rid of your useragent entirely, create a new String preference in about:config
general.useragent.overrideand leave it blank.
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Also, does anyone know how to disable your browser from sending plugin information to the website? Why the heck does the website need to know what plugins you have? The browser should be able to say "Oh, you need this plugin...please install it", which it already can.
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Currently testing this addon/service:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … /anonymox/
Did anyone try this yet?
If not for privacy, now I can watch BBC channels. 
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chaanakya wrote:
If you want to get rid of your useragent entirely, create a new String preference in about:config
general.useragent.overrideand leave it blank.
I would not recommend this for facebook users. After doing this, facebook.com told me it didn't support my browser, and recommended me to install Firefox.. 