Saturday, July 19, 2014

Re: Survey stuff

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 03:36:41 +0200,
Michael Scherer <misc@zarb.org> wrote:
>
>While i do not think this would be practical as is and mention it just
>for completeness, the survey could also be hosted as a tor hidden
>service, thus making the issue of server log moot.

The server doesn't get the real IP address. Part of the client set up
mentioned below is making sure your browser dosn't leak too much information,
as servers typcially still log user agent and could log various other
headers that can be used to fingerprint browsers. For people interested
in this topic, the EFF has some old articles about it.

>However, this would requires some uncommon setup on the client side that
>would likely skew the results, and wouldn't solve the other issue you
>mention.
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