[tor-talk] Tor for upcoming FirefoxOS?

[Jacob Appelbaum]

Nathan Freitas:
> On 07/02/2013 09:26 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
>>
>> does anyone made a technical analysis to understand whenever would be
>> possible to have Tor running on upcoming FirefoxOS ?
>> https://people.mozilla.com/~myk/r2d2b2g/
> 
> We've talked to Mozilla multiple times about this possibility. They even
> invited us to a special event in Mountain View around a "secure Firefox
> phone".
> 
> The main issue is that they don't want to allow native binaries to run
> on the device as part of apps themselves. We can easily write an HTML/JS
> controller GUI, aka OrbotHTML, but we can't bundle in a native Tor arm
> binary into that app, apparently.
> 
> They said we must cross-compile any native code into Javascript. I am
> not sure if that was meant to be a joke or not.
> 
> Perhaps we are just not talking to the right people.
> 

VPN in javascript? Or they won't have VPN support? Or we just aren't
cool enough to be a vpn?

All the best,
Jake