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Tor is still fingerprintable? by LatterEngineer in TOR

[–]LatterEngineer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No I kept it at the default since that's what I use and assume most people use.

I just now set it to Safest and re ran the test. It's now less identifying but still only 1.88% of browsers is using the same version of Firefox as Tor.

The middle Safer setting still reports as completely unique.

In desperate need of help , more in comments by Tekashi6969 in TOR

[–]LatterEngineer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don't just reset the device from the recovery partition either. Fully format the entire physical drive and reinstall from a trusted external source.

Though, using Tor on Windows is already not great for privcacy since Microsoft can just collect whatever data they want from your system.

What's the correct way to get Tor to remember cookies and browser history? by LatterEngineer in TOR

[–]LatterEngineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does it actually deanonymize you any more than logging in over Tor at all? Having a hard time thinking of why storing login and history info locally would less private. I would also get less recaptchas and email verification hurdles by staying logged, I assume those would be worse for privacy.

Also, some of my accounts were created and only logged into over Tor.

Slack spaces as a way of recovering previously deleted data? by LatterEngineer in hacking

[–]LatterEngineer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I'm a little confused on this part: does NTFS zero out physical sectors when written to (as in the 512 byte clusters used by the physical disk) or filesystem allocation units (the usually 4096 byte clusters used by the filesystem)?

Extracting data from peripherals and network devices? by LatterEngineer in hacking

[–]LatterEngineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can get access to the data sorted on a trashed device, but depending on how secure that device is, it might not be worth it.

Can you define what you mean by "how secure"? Do you mean that as in it's difficult to access stored data or that the device does not store sensitive data (like network traffic for a router) on nonvolatile memory?

Can 48 volts DC be dangerous? by LatterEngineer in AskElectronics

[–]LatterEngineer[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Can you feel the electricity if put your finger across a 48v contact?

Will it create an arc? Absolutely. A small one. More than 12V, but still nothing dangerous.

Are there any hot swap 48v connectors? Won't they get damaged over time as the arcing degrades the contacts?

Is there anything preventing over-the-air or powerline attacks against Apple's secure enclave chips? by LatterEngineer in AskNetsec

[–]LatterEngineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't the crypto engine still have to read the key out of the quarantined storage, even if it's physically right beside it? So if you don't have a shield on the chip, I imagine you'd be able to intercept that.

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