-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: (none) [httpd finding your identity] At 11:28 96-01-12 -0800, you wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, sameer wrote:
control what information is passed out to the other end. Specifically, I'd like http://anonymizer.cs.cmu.edu:8080/prog/snoop.pl to come up nearly blank.)
We do not send the HTTP 'From:' header. I will look into where they are getting the user name and location from. There is really nothing I can do in the Navigator to stop them from getting your IP address or DNS name.
I beleive that it uses finger. If you really want to prevent people from finding out where you're coming from, use the anonymizer. Not at CMU? Don't worry.
On most UNIX machines or a Mac or PC running most common talk clients? Worry. Not just finger, but also identd will identify you. I think Eudora Pro has an identd option, too.
-rich
On Win 3.1 using Netscape 1.22, you can improve your 'lack of output' by removing in the PREFERENCES menu: Your Name: Your Email: Your Organization: The bad side is that you cannot mail from Netscape without filling the Email entry with a valid Email address and putting an anonymous address (ex.:an123456@anon.penet.fi) would cause http://anonymizer.cs.cmu.edu:8080/prog/snoop.pl to report your REAL hostname with your anonymous username (ex.:an123456@myhost.com) so if privacy is a must and you cannot use the anonymizer, this could reduce your output to your computer type and operating system and your browser and version number. For my part, after removing my Email, it was all that was left (-: ( It will stay that way... ) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMPhL8l0tVeSYE8qJAQFN9AQAgXcbJzhqbExyvVA+5VZXojCuUGxJsH0e qhmSmn9I6vInIzfJNoUi1I5tdwVqOFaheFTh6XPYjVIRnCNx4g0u3z2Mjx8V2B0a O66XsFFX3tgCHizIVFkXJ1rzOXRDXCBb4joo+500MOWi77GgfHBMd1F3IBTcS2i6 8QZshD4gF0U= =9rLo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Francoeur | "One of the things Adolf Hitler E-Mail: doclulu@infobahnos.com | and Bill Clinton have in common http://www.infobahnos.com/~doclulu | is that both were democratically PGP Public key available at website | democratically elected leaders." | -Dr. Dimitri Vuli 1995.