Author: Jacob Appelbaum Date: To: tails-dev Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?
adrelanos: >>> Thus my suggestions:
>>> - Keep only header. Safe users traffic, Tor's traffic and website traffic.
>>> - Drop the user agent setting, it only gives a false sense of being in
>>> the same anonymity set as Tor Button.
>>
>> That is not the goal - the point is that you will say, drop that and no
>> one else will do so - so you will entirely stick out.
>
> Well, don't drop it individually or right away. Drop it in a new release.
>
And I am saying - TBB won't drop their user agent. So you won't look
like them - you will look like you.
>>>
>>> [1] Not exactly impossible. The curl devs would have to change too much,
>>> extremely unlikely.
>>
>> I don't use curl with tlsdate.
>
> Replace curl with a placeholder for any command line downloader.
>
I think you are confused. If I send a GET request with all the headers
sent by say, Tor Browser, that *single* GET request should look
identical. That is my goal.
