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Tor Browser is just an old version of Firefox, with lots of known vulnerabilities. FBI is well known to take over Tor hidden services and exploit the visitors w
by dobin 5y ago
Tor Browser is just an old version of Firefox, with lots of known vulnerabilities. FBI is well known to take over Tor hidden services and exploit the visitors with a 0-day/1-day, which makes it easy to de-anonymize them.
Privacy depends on security. Firefox is about 3-5 years behind security level of Chrome (Sandbox, Fuzzing efforts, hardening efforts, source code reviews, etc.).
- easrng 5y agoThat's not true, it's based on Firefox ESR which does get security patches, just not new features between major versions.
- chuckSu 5y ago
- southerntofu 5y agoThis is FUD. Neither Chrome nor Firefox are any good for *security*, as they both regularly get pwned at every hacking contest there is. Tor Browser is a different beast, because although it's based on Firefox, its attack surface is infinitely smaller than that of Firefox. When running in Safest mode, it's essentially just rendering HTML/CSS/images: anything that involves convoluted decoding (video, webfonts, scripts) is disabled. Treating your web browser as an environment for declarative pages is best practice for security: no matter how many layers of sandboxing you'll use, people will find holes. So apart from a few bypasses like the parent comment explained, TBB is decades ahead any other browser's security level out there (except for your favorite CLI browser over Tor which has roughly the same properties).