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The thing about that is the browser bundle they provide significantly reduces the number of variables they need to consider when making tor work to secure priva
by glomph 13y ago
The thing about that is the browser bundle they provide significantly reduces the number of variables they need to consider when making tor work to secure privacy. If everyone used it with the default firefox there would be significant problems for anonymity in terms of browser sniffing.
I think a more helpful move in response to the exploit would be working towards having tor base their bundle on more up to date versions of firefox.
- duaneb 13y agoIf TOR were to behave similarly to google incognito, I think it'd be fine.
- slacka 13y agoexactly. Why does everyone assume "Tor mode" would have the private browsing features disabled? Mozilla isn't stupid.
- doublec 13y agoThe bundle available at the time included the fix. This post on June 26 says it's based on Firefox 17.0.7esr. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-tor-browser-bundles-and-tor-02414-alpha-packages https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-tor-browser-bundles-and... The number of affected users must be due to not upgrading. Does the tor bundle automatically update?
- DuskStar 13y agoI do not believe it does, though the default homepage will alert you if you are using an outdated version of the browser bundle.