[tor-bugs] #5294 [Company]: Make human summary of TBB design doc

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#5294: Make human summary of TBB design doc
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 Reporter:  mikeperry  |          Owner:                          
     Type:  task       |         Status:  new                     
 Priority:  major      |      Milestone:  Sponsor Z: March 1, 2013
Component:  Company    |        Version:                          
 Keywords:             |         Parent:  #5811                   
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Comment(by mikeperry):

 Hrmm.. Well, a root issue here is that most of these "attacks" are
 actually considered features by other browsers. In particular: the ability
 to track users across different sites is totally awesome from the
 perspective of browser makers.

 I think we'll have the best results somehow contrasting the cross-site
 unlinkability properties/goals of TBB
 (https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#privacy) with the
 cross-site tracking features provided by other browsers, but at a very
 very high level.

 I think most normal people might actually be pretty ignorant of how Google
 can for example track their activity across the whole web, not just on
 Google's sites.

 I think specific attacks is of course way too low-level for the output. I
 think it's even way too low level for the input, because it probably will
 bias thinking away from simplicity.

 Now, in interest of full disclosure, one of the reasons I am not running
 at this task personally is because I feel slightly guilty communicating
 these high level ideas to the general public while we still have quite a
 few known direct violations of them open in our bugtracker:
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?keywords=~tbb-linkability
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?keywords=~tbb-
 fingerprinting

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