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posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday September 30 2014, @01:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the What-does-the-fox-say? dept.

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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by cykros on Wednesday October 08 2014, @02:49AM

    by cykros (989) on Wednesday October 08 2014, @02:49AM (#103422)

    Not true: no matter what you do, again, it won't let you save passwords on the hard drive - with or without a master password. I do believe it is a bug, but it's been there for such a long time, I wonder if it's not by design after all.

    If it's not by design, it's a very good bug to have. If you're going for less paranoia, you can definitely configure on your own at your own risk, but there's no good reason that the Tor Browser would have to allow password saving by default. Generally speaking, a lot of Tor user deobfuscation has centered around driveby malware, and stealing the saved passwords would go a long way to putting together an identity by any particularly determined attacker, especially state sponsored. I'm curious as to how it is stopped though; I'd have a look in about:config.

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