[tor-talk] A secure browsing model?

Gozu-san gozu at xerobank.net
Fri Jan 20 10:37:06 UTC 2012


I apologize.  I've just reread the Tor Browser design page, and I get
your adversary model and intended audience.  My comments are probably
not very useful for most of that intended audience :(  Browsers are what
they use, so browsers are what you have to work with.

On 20/01/12 08:42, Mike Perry wrote:

> My mistake. I'd love to hear non-browser based solutions for privately
> browsing the web. Sounds like an interesting topic!
> 
> Thus spake Gozu-san (gozu at xerobank.net):
> 
>> No offense meant, Mike, but I don't trust browsers that much.  I barely
>> even trust VirtualBox that much.
>>
>> On 20/01/12 07:27, Mike Perry wrote:
>>
>>> Thus spake grarpamp (grarpamp at gmail.com):
>>>
>>>> There is a need to be logged into multiple popular sites at the same
>>>> time (facebook, google, yahoo, twitter, etc). These sites tend to
>>>> have all sorts of cross links between them (image embeds, cookies,
>>>> etc) that I don't want. I want none of them to be aware of the other.
>>>> So I can't just open up a browser and tab them all out.
>>>>
>>>> Two options seem to fit:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you trolling me? This is exactly what I've designed Tor Browser
>>> for, and I've stated and reiterated this fact on this list,
>>> tor-dev, and the blog quite a few times now.
>>>
>>> See:
>>> https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#privacy
>>>
>>> Is that too technical? How can I improve the design document so that
>>> it is more clear that it is exactly what you're looking for?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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