changing IMEI
Neal H. Walfield
neal at walfield.org
Fri Feb 21 10:17:26 CET 2014
At Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:31:46 +0100,
joerg Reisenweber wrote:
> On Thu 20 February 2014 15:27:33 Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> > Why do you think the only use for a mobile phone is to make calls? If
> > I only make a data connection and am careful to tunnel all of my data
> > via Tor, then this identification method is useful.
> >
> > Neal
>
> Err, right. For that usecase it might work - until you do *anything* that
> gives away your ID, which is even more easy in internet than in a GSM call
> (think searching for 2 or 3 topics on google which are specific to you. Or
> visiting 2 or 3 specific websites, maybe even in a certain specific usage
> pattern. Obviously you can't use email or anything like that. And google [and
> others] might be able to identify you from your typing style and rhythm into
> the search term textfield already).
>
> And no, you probably can't use a VPN to have only encrypted data transferred
> over the air. I don't think there are any free and open VPN endpoints
> available.
Using Tor avoids this problem. Check it out:
https://www.torproject.org/
Neal
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