On 19 Oct 2001, Declan McCullagh quoted a non-so-Anonymous source:
And, of course, there's the fact that Freedom notifies everyone between my computer and zeroknowledge.com that I'm using freedom. Which, of course, is covered by the Pen trace and trap warrants, and is collected by carnivore. Now I'm telling my ISP and the world what my IP is, what my platform is, and that I use Freedom.
How, again, is this not tracking me?
I suppose that my question, (assuming what Anonymous described is the actual behavior of Freedom 3.0), would now be: "who cares?" What is left in the Freedom product that this would matter? Your ISP and the world are not likely to care that you're using an glorified cookie-manager, and it's my impression that that is what Freedom has now become. However, for the sake of clarity, it would indeed be nice to know what the information those HTTP requests actually means, and for what purpose it is being generated. Also, are there any threats created by such information leakage? How could Freedom 3.0 users be harmed by this? (If the same behavior was present in Freedom 2.0, I can imagine some more obvious immediate threats. If what Dov says is true, it's remarkable that ZKS hadn't been called on this previously. But now that Freedom is no longer an anonymity service, what are the concerns?) -MW-