[tor-reports] Andrew's December 2012

[visior at free.fr]

Hello

Please, remove my mail address from the mail-list.

visior


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De: "Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" <lists at infosecurity.ch>
À: tor-reports at lists.torproject.org
Envoyé: Mardi 8 Janvier 2013 08:08:48
Objet: Re: [tor-reports] Andrew's December 2012

On 1/7/13 9:34 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote:
> # Top 5 goals from November 2012
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2012-December/000098.html
>
> 1. Make progress on trademark violations now that we have a pro-bono
> lawyer. A growing number of people are taking tor browser and
> re-bundling it with spyware, adware, and other crapware, but calling it
> Tor Browser, buying domains with "tor" in it, buying ads pushing their
> "tor" and "tor browser", and copying our website layout to confuse
> users into downloading it.

Regardless the fact that there's such Tor Browser with malicious code,
if people re-package it and re-distribute it means that this is a need.

I am wondering whenever it would not be good to discuss about an
"Official strategy" to let third party "customize" Tor Browser Bundle,
while keeping it's integrity.

For example someone would eventually like to be able to:
- Change Logo
- Change Start-page of Firefox
- Populate Bookmarks
- Pre-configure a set of Bridges

If Tor Project would provide an official way to do so, then
organizations willing to customize will proliferate, and it would be
possible to keep a way to verify the integrity of the binaries even with
a customized TBB.

So the "Market need" to customize TBB will be satisfied while keeping
the integrity of the sofware.

What do you think?

Fabio

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