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Tor Browser Security Under Scrutiny

Posted by Soulskill on from the shouldn't-we-be-funding-this-better dept.

msm1267 writes: The keepers of Tor commissioned a study testing the defenses and viability of their Firefox-based browser as a privacy tool. The results (PDF) were a bit eye-opening since the report's recommendations don't favor Firefox as a baseline for Tor, rather Google Chrome. But Tor's handlers concede that budget constraints and Chrome's limitations on proxy support make a switch or a fork impossible.

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  1. Re:Not surprising... by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I feel the same way about Tor as I do about DuckDuckGo: if I were paranoid enough to use it, I would be paranoid enough to wonder how it gets along without a business model.