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cool that they are awarding funds, but giving tor this kind of money, it being a spy/insurgent/criminal tool and after all the scandals it is involved in, is no
by timwaagh 10y ago
cool that they are awarding funds, but giving tor this kind of money, it being a spy/insurgent/criminal tool and after all the scandals it is involved in, is not great. tails is, of course, another such spy tool. it gives the impression mozilla is mostly concerned with undermining state/rule of law/formenting political instability. i think they might contribute more to projects that benefit everyday digital citizens rather than activists. I like Caddy, Pears, godot and NVDA though.
- r3bl 10y agoI would love to hear about those scandals. Especially in the Tails case. Could you explain your reasoning?
- timwaagh 10y agoi was referring to tor. you probably know about the drug markets and more importantly the abuse case. If you read it again i'm merely saying Tails is another spy tool. i am not saying it is involved in any scandals.
- ashitlerferad 10y agoTor and Tails are tools for everyone who cares about their privacy, not just for spies.
- thrkw123456789 10y ago? Tor is freely available to any one. Tor browser is so simple my mother uses it. At this point I don't understand why people would do a websearch for something they would not discuss in public without using Tor.
- kirkdouglas 10y agoI hope Mozilla will add seamless Tor interoperability in future versions of Firefox.
- thrkw123456789 10y agoSome sort of super private browsing mode would be nice. I'm not sure I trust Mozilla to get that right though. Their main priority is pushing the Web forward (and keeping up with chrome). Privacy is difficult and conflicts with functionality in some cases e.g. webrtc, javascript, window size etc. The current solution where Mozilla have an lts release that the tor project can use as a base seems quite a good compromise.