[tor-talk] Unsigned Mac OS X binary for TorBrowser

adrelanos adrelanos at riseup.net
Sat Nov 10 12:20:13 UTC 2012


Roman Mamedov:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 18:05:58 -0500
> Matthew Fisch <mfisch at mfisch.com> wrote:
> 
>> The installer can be verified with PGP using the published signature and GPG or PGP software.
>> This however, is beyond the technical prowess of the vast majority of Mac OS X users of the torbrowser bundle.
> 
> Well maybe those users need to get their priorities straight?

Dream on. With that kind of attitude, which I can understand, the Tor
network will be too small to provide any kind of anonymity.

> Do they want
> anonymity and freedom on the internet, or do they want to use a proprietary
> and restricting OS the parent company of which is as unfriendly to third-party
> software developers as it can possibly be.

I don't think they are able, have the time or are willing to understand
such kind of issues. As long things just work those people are happy.
They need to miserably suffer from being careless before they even
think. Try to communicate that with the affected users. You'll probable
fail in 99% of cases getting through.


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