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Re: Tor Browser 10

#101

Post by hechang1997 »

belorn wrote: post #19
nisuni wrote: post #5

What's the current status of Tor? I remember seeing in the past many de-anonymizing attacks against it.

For users wanting to prevent their ISP from sniffing around then tor works as intended. Against advertisers it also work decently as a self cleaning browsers that constantly change its IP address. For developers and sysadmins that want to get an outside look at their own services or investigate third party websites (like fraudulent lookalike) it work pretty effective with some caveats. It also works mostly fine again…

Not in China. Please use a forward proxy if you were to use Tor in China.

Re: Tor Browser 10

#102

Post by pezezin »

jFriedensreich wrote: post #40
pezezin wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm working for a big international project and our most important website is running fucking SSL 3.0 I reported it one year ago, and it hasn't been fixed yet. Many people are having problems connecting now, because browsers are removing support. The server is hosted in Germany, which really amuses me given their reputation for good engineering...

That reputation comes from cars and machines, not from software. Germany is one of the worst places for anything digital.

Now that you mention it... many years ago I took a course on SAP. Mein Gott, what an abomination. All the tables and columns with four letters name were specially fun.

Re: Tor Browser 10

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Post by belorn »

ezluckyfree wrote: post #29
belorn wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For users wanting to prevent their ISP from sniffing around then tor works as intended. Against advertisers it also work decently as a self cleaning browsers that constantly change its IP address. For developers and sysadmins that want to get an outside look at their own services or investigate third party websites (like fraudulent lookalike) it work pretty effective with some caveats. It also works mostly fine again…

>It also works mostly fine against national and ISP firewalls that is intended to censor citizens and lead people away from places which the state has declared unsuited for its population. Can't most countries just block all Tor traffic? Russia does this as far as I know. If you're the kind of state that would have a national firewall, why would you let your citizens use Tor at all?

It seems that a lot of such blocking are done with a lower kind of effort by those who are tasked to implement it. An example is the UK porn and piracy filters,but also a bunch of east state countries with the "whoops, you entered a bad place" firewalls.

I would speculate that the purpose of those are not to be a perfect blocks but rather a methods to mold and redirect citizens towards what the state want.

Re: Tor Browser 10

#104

Post by HashingtheCode »

Can someone please explain to me, why in the name of all things holy, Tor browser on Android has telemetry tracking enabled???

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/org.torproj...

"The Telemetry feature provides this capability by sending performance and usage info to Mozilla. As you use Firefox, Telemetry measures and collects non-personal information, such as performance, hardware, usage and customizations. It then sends this information to Mozilla on a daily basis and we use it to improve Firefox. "

Why is this not disabled in a supposed privacy browser?

Re: Tor Browser 10

#105

Post by mrslave »

HashingtheCode wrote: post #104

Can someone please explain to me, why in the name of all things holy, Tor browser on Android has telemetry tracking enabled??? https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/org.torproj... "The Telemetry feature provides this capability by sending performance and usage info to Mozilla. As you use Firefox, Telemetry measures and collects non-personal information, such as performance, hardware, usage and customizatio…

Is it alright if the telemetry itself is sent over Tor? ;-)

Re: Tor Browser 10

#106

Post by HashingtheCode »

mrslave wrote: post #105
HashingtheCode wrote: post #104

Can someone please explain to me, why in the name of all things holy, Tor browser on Android has telemetry tracking enabled??? https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/org.torproj... "The Telemetry feature provides this capability by sending performance and usage info to Mozilla. As you use Firefox, Telemetry measures and collects non-personal information, such as performance, hardware, usage and customizatio…

Is it alright if the telemetry itself is sent over Tor? ;-)

no because Tor browser bills itself as privacy orientated. Sending any kind of telemetry data compromised that.

Telemetry data is made up of two data sets: interaction data and technical data.

Interaction data includes information about your interactions with Firefox such as number of open tabs and windows, number of webpages visited, number and type of installed Firefox Add-ons and session length, as well as Firefox features offered by Mozilla or our partners such as interaction with Firefox search features and search partner referrals.

Technical data includes information about your Firefox version and language, device operating system and hardware configuration, memory, basic information about crashes and errors, outcome of automated processes like updates and safebrowsing. When Firefox sends data to us, your IP address is temporarily collected as part of our server logs.

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