[tor-talk] TBB and local TOR for Linux users

[Tor User0000]

Hi,

Thanks for the answer Andrew.

> Likely, you're missing some torbutton protections.

I don't understand what protection could be lost when using TBB
Firefox together with a local TOR. Beside the control features that
Vidalia provides nothing should be different. Firefox is using
127.0.0.1:9050 and the local TOR is listening. What protection could
be missed there?

Sam



On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Andrew Lewman <andrew at torproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:34:10 +0000
> Tor User0000 <toruser0000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are there plans to give Linux users the choice to run the installed
>> version of TOR instead of the TBB one?
>
> Currently, no. There have been many debates over how to handle system
> tor versus the tor shipped with tbb. To date, there is no clean
> consensus on how to do this safely and without violating local OS
> permissions or modes of operations.
>
>> If that is not the case, am I doing good by using the local installed
>> TOR (debian-tor) together with firefox (only) in your bundle?
>
> Likely, you're missing some torbutton protections.
>
> Here's the design doc on torbrowser,
> https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ that shows the
> difference between stock firefox and our firefox-based torbrowser.
>
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> Andrew
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