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The Daily Dot has a story about a browser vendor who wants to package Tor as part of its private browsing mode. From the article:
Several major tech firms are in talks with Tor to include the software in products that can potentially reach over 500 million Internet users around the world. One particular firm wants to include Tor as a “private browsing mode” in a mainstream Web browser, allowing users to easily toggle connectivity to the Tor anonymity network on and off.
“They very much like Tor Browser and would like to ship it to their customer base,” Tor executive director Andrew Lewman wrote, explaining the discussions but declining to name the specific company. “Their product is 10-20 percent of the global market, this is of roughly 2.8 billion global Internet users.”
The author elaborates:
The product that best fits Lewman’s description by our estimation is Mozilla Firefox, the third-most popular Web browser online today and home to, you guessed it, 10 to 20 percent of global Internet users.
The story appears to have gleaned most of its information from a tor-dev mailing list post. An interesting reply from Tor developer Mike Perry explains how Tor can be modified so that the network can handle the extra load.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday September 30 2014, @08:47PM
Call me paranoid, but...,
We live in a world full of "normal people" i.e. not tech-savvy people, and a world run by knee-jerk [bbc.co.uk] authoritarian politicians [theguardian.com]. Even in traditional liberal democracies, we are creeping towards totalitarian police states. Meanwhile, the facists crack the whip [bbc.co.uk].
In the eyes of "normal people" and politicians, who uses TOR? Who could possibly want to be anonymous on the Internet? Terrorists, paedophiles, drug dealers and drug users [channel4.com], of course!
"Normal people" - and by extension the politicians who want to get their votes - have the issues presented to them in these [dailymail.co.uk] terms [express.co.uk]. Evil, evil and more evil.
And Jihadists are planning an encryption-protected cyber caliphate [dailymail.co.uk], would you believe?
So are you with us, or against us?
In this simplistic modern world, guilt by association is a given. I do not want TOR built into my web browser. No way.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by jimshatt on Tuesday September 30 2014, @10:01PM
(Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday October 01 2014, @07:46PM
OK, then, you first! :-)
Casual spying is automated these days, so I'm under no illusions about being monitored. I just imagine that having TOR on your network puts you higher up the list of potentially interesting people.
Not that I have anything to hide, you understand, not at this stage. My voting record is pretty standard and unremarkable by subversive standards :-)
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].