Privacy

32173 readers

190 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

164

What is the lowest score you have achieved on EFF Cover Your Tracks? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

69 comments fedilink hide all child comments

On Librewolf i got 16.48 bits of information, on TOR browser 10.32 bits, but on Tails I managed to get only 9.3 bits.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How does tails get the bits so low?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Tails uses the Tor Browser which does a lot to minimize fingerprinting, for example by letterboxing so the screen size (one of the most unique information in my case) is rounded as to not be as unique.

https://tb-manual.torproject.org/anti-fingerprinting/