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Greyhat Harry · (This post was last modified: Jan. 18, 2016 03:56 PM by Greyhat Harry.)

. You know your browser is absolutely a 100% garbage when it gets installed by the dishonestly pre-configured installer of another "free" application.

. If your browser makes even one unauthorized (and specially encrypted) connection to any host (and they're normally very many all the time, even past the constitutional startup callhome frenzy), that browser is compromised. This may be corrected with enough tweaking or simply defused at DNS/Firewall level. I, however, have gone down a third road by hexing out every host that my browser of choice, Opera 12.14 portable, will attempt to connect to.

. Do you really want to sabotage legitimate TOR users? "protect" your website with CloudFlare and google captchas. I had to go through probably over a hundred public socks servers from banana republic socialist hellholes just to get an account over here.

. TOR's still safe as long as you stick to the "expert" bundle and handle the rest with trustworthy third party applications. Sometimes you hear stuff about the government pouring cash into it, which's true, but this is done solely for the purpose of scaring users away, because they know they can't do much else about it short of passing "law" to criminalize anything that is done outside the "government-authorized cloud". And that's coming, write it down.

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