Google's Chrome Web Browser and Tor

[Kyle Williams]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Nick Mathewson <nickm at freehaven.net>
> wrote:
> > I dig what I've heard of the Chrome architecture, but it seems clear
> > that, like every other consumer browser, it's not suitable for
> > anonymous browsing out-of-the-box.  The real question will be how easy
> > it is to adapt it to be safe.  Torbutton, for instance, has proven to
> > take some pretty extreme hackery to try to shut down all of Firefox's
> > interesting leaks.  If it turned out to be (say) an order of magnitude
> > easier to extend Chrome to be anonymity-friendly, that would be pretty
> > awesome.  We'll see, I guess.
> [snip]
>
> Why aren't more people using virtual machines for anonymous browsing?
>
> If your VM can't access the outside world except via TOR, and it has
> no knowledge of the outside world information (because TOR itself is
> running on the real machine) then pretty much all possible leaks are
> closed and you're only vulnerable to leakage between multiple
> anonymous things. Very simple, very clean.
>

You sir are spot on!  Multiple VMs is the way to go.  :)
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