Tor Browser 6.0: Ditches SHA-1 Support, Uses DuckDuckGo For Default Search Results (torproject.org)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @04:45AM from the browse-like-nobody-is-watching dept.

The version 6.0 of Tor Browser, a free software for enabling anonymous communication, is now available to download. The new version introduces several changes, including disabling SHA-1 support, and removing Mac Gatekeeper issue. Another big change is that Tor now uses DuckDuckGo for search results by default. The Tor Project, people behind Tor, add that the "updater is not relying on the signature alone, but is checking the hash of the downloaded update file as well before applying it." More details on NetworkWorld.

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Re:Anonymous communication by NotInHere · 2016-05-31 05:00 · Score: 4, Informative

I often use tor not because I not want to be monitored by my government (not doing illegal things), but because I don't want to feed data to the ever hungry google and other companies.