[tor-talk] still problems - update available

[andrew at torproject.org]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 07:21:04PM +0000, rransom.8774 at gmail.com wrote 1.6K bytes in 22 lines about:
: periodically; it's bad enough that the update check makes a TBB's
: first circuit recognizable at the exit node, and that every time a
: user opens a new window, the exit node can tell that the user is
: opening a new window and can tell whether TBB is asking check.tpo to
: send the out-of-date warning message.  (I don't think we realized that
: was a problem before we deployed this update notifier and shouted
: ‘Wolf! Wolf!’ at our users.))

For what it's worth, we run an exit enclave for check.torproject.org. 

-- 
Andrew
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