Hi,
Thanks for the question.
On 2018-06-16 12:01, juanjo wrote:
I do not understand why Sandboxed Tor Browser is now deprecated when it should be the new thing in security features. It works well and stopped already some 0days in the past and today I see that not only is officially "WARNING: ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT IS ON INDEFINITE HIATUS" (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBrowser/Sandbox/Linux), the last commit is from 3 months ago, but still it works well. And today I see that for the Firefox 60 ESR this support will be removed (https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-build.git/commit/?id=dc35...).
As you pointed out, this project is no longer being actively maintained. While someone on the Tor Browser development team can answer more thoroughly, my understanding is that the original maintainer moved on from working on this project. The Tor development teams are quite small, so (like many open source projects) there are more projects than people to support them.
Is there a hidden agenda to allow LEA/governments to exploit Tor Browser users easily? Because I don't think maintaining the sandboxed version is that much work and it is a great protection for many users.
There isn't. If you have more concerns or questions feel free to have a conversation with someone working on Tor directly- we are active on irc: https://www.torproject.org/about/contact.html.en#irc
So please, make Sandboxed Tor Browser an official thing.
We definitely welcome community-supported projects. If you or anyone you know wants to contribute to this project. let us know.
All best, Chelsea