TOR Wants You To Stop Using Windows, Disable JavaScript

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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Firefox

[colinrichardday]

As firefox disallows the disabling of javascript, perhaps TOR users should avoid firefox.

Re:Security professionals generally missing the po

[__aasehi2499]

It's going to be a crushing blow to people when we find out Linus Torvalds was a government plant from the beginning

Re:Security professionals generally missing the po

[Spiked_Three]

So if 'rights and freedoms' are illusions to begin with, are they giving anything up?

There was nothing Snowden told the world that was not pretty obvious to begin with. This concept that you ever had privacy in the first place is the actual BS.

And here is another clue; the protection offered by encryption you know of (unless you have security clearances) provides about exactly the same protection as the paper envelope you used to send your snail mail in, breakable by anyone with a pair of scissors. But, I bet you think encryption is secure, right?

The public is not "willing to give up its rights", it is smart enough to know it didn't have them to begin with.