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Tor Browser 7.0.3 is Released (Major Security Bugfix Release for Linux Users Only)

posted by takyon on Tuesday August 01 2017, @08:52AM   
from the click-our-summary's-specially-crafted-URLs dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

"This release features an important security update to Tor Browser for Linux users. On Linux systems with GVfs/GIO support Firefox allows to bypass proxy settings as it ships a whitelist of supported protocols. Once an affected user navigates to a specially crafted URL the operating system may directly connect to the remote host, bypassing Tor Browser. Tails and Whonix users, and users of our sandboxed Tor Browser are unaffected, though."

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Original Submission

• GNOME is not Linux GNOME is not Linux (Score: 5, Informative) by Arik on Tuesday August 01 2017, @11:43AM (6 children)

  by Arik (4543) on Tuesday August 01 2017, @11:43AM (#547596) Journal

  Once again the former gives a bad name to, well, anyone foolish enough to ship it.

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  If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?

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• Re:GNOME is not Linux Re:GNOME is not Linux (Score: 3, Informative) by kaszz on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:41PM (3 children)

  by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:41PM (#547611) Journal

  GNOME needs systemd which is a product of RedHat. Which is controlled by its chairman Shelton. That is a career military officer.

  Anyone got the message? ;-)

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  • Re:GNOME is not Linux Re:GNOME is not Linux (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @05:19PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @05:19PM (#547708)

    > GNOME needs systemd [...]

    Not exactly. [freebsd.org]

    > Which is controlled by its chairman Shelton. That is a career military officer.

    If a project sees functionality within systemd that is useful, [...] you’ll not get very far with stating that the project is bad for having used that. Or suggesting that there is some conspiracy going on, or that the project maintainer is an idiot. [gnome.org]

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    • Re:GNOME is not Linux (Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Tuesday August 01 2017, @07:07PM

      by Arik (4543) on Tuesday August 01 2017, @07:07PM (#547729) Journal

      1.) That's GNOME 2.32. There were, like, a couple dozen forks of it but I'm not a fan so I haven't kept up with which are still going etc. If you ever see a GNOME 1 fork I would give it a test-drive.
      
      2.) I can generalize that quite a bit. When systemd has a readily apparent benefit, however minor, and the potential negative effects seem abstract and tenuous by comparison, no matter how catastrophic the potential effect, it will be written off and ignored by most humans. As a species, we're just that short-sighted.

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      If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?

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    • Re:GNOME is not Linux (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @07:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @07:07PM (#547730)

      Hah! He says systemd just works, if you say it doesn't work for you you have no credibility. Fuck that guy

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• Re:GNOME is not Linux Re:GNOME is not Linux (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday August 02 2017, @08:29AM (1 child)

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday August 02 2017, @08:29AM (#547875) Homepage

  Yeah, I was going to post something similar, framed around the following rhetorical question:
  
  So, who should we blame for this - RedHat (current majority contributor to Gnome), well known for things such as systemd, or Miguel de Icaza (originator of Gnome), well known for trying to push .NET into Linux?

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

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  • Re:GNOME is not Linux (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @06:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @06:48PM (#548049)

    Pretty sure de Icaza hasn't had anything to do with GNOME - or working - for years. He got a cushy sinecure from Microsoft after he endorsed .NET iirc.

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