TOR Wants You To Stop Using Windows, Disable JavaScript

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 6, 2013 @02:11AM from the so-say-we-all dept.

itwbennett writes "The TOR Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined the main advantages of the privacy-centered network. The zero-day vulnerability allowed as-yet-unknown interlopers to use a malicious piece of JavaScript to collect crucial identifying information on computers visiting some websites using The Onion Router (TOR) network. 'Really, switching away from Windows is probably a good security move for many reasons,' according to a security advisory posted Monday by The TOR Project."

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NSA owned netblocks by NynexNinja · 2013-08-06 02:22 · Score: 5, Informative

Looks like the NSA is up to their old dirty tricks: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/researchers-say-tor-targeted-malware-phoned-home-to-nsa/ ... And yes, I second the motion to stop using Windows -- its full of zero day bugs like this. Not a day goes by where you don't hear about a new zero day attack focused on Windows, and its been that way for decades.