Tor and Mozilla team up for a more private and powerful Web browsing experience

[Arizin]

Today the Tor Project announced that it will be teaming up with Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox browser, and the Center of Democracy & Technology, an advocacy group for digital rights, as part of a new initiative called Polaris.

The partnership helps both Mozilla and Tor. The Firefox browser will get more privacy features while the Tor Project will get to work with Mozilla engineers to help work on the Firefox codebase and get increased Tor network support. The Tor browser is built upon Mozilla technology.

Currently there are finite number of Tor connections that can occur at the same time. Mozilla will help alleviate this by adding high-capacity Tor middle relays to the Tor network.

For anyone that’s concerned about privacy while navigating the Internet, the Tor browser is a great way to keep prying eyes from tracking you. With today’s Mozilla partnership announcement, that private browsing might get a bit more powerful.

This could mean Tor would not be secure anymore as it is now!.

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[dcs18]

This could mean Tor would not be secure anymore as it is now!.

This means that Firefox would be more secure than it ever was. ;)

[Arizin]

This could mean Tor would not be secure anymore as it is now!.

This means that Firefox would be more secure than it ever was. ;)

But it could be the other way around.. Tor would be exposed by Mozilla's technologies meaning less anonymity.

[steven36]

I doubt it will effect Mozilla Firefox as we know it Tor Network don't even use the latest versions of Firefox they use Firefox ESR , TOR itself having a lot security issues this year.

Many questions are raised on really how secure is it ? Besides the fact that most Tor proxies are ban . Tor browser is a headache because many websites use cloudfare witch blocks most Tor proxies . It makes it very hard to get on some websites .Now there going use Mozilla as a middle man for there central relay system and put more holes in there security. This want have no bearing on Firefox just Tor is all.

[dcs18]

This could mean Tor would not be secure anymore as it is now!.

This means that Firefox would be more secure than it ever was. ;)

But it could be the other way around.. Tor would be exposed by Mozilla's technologies meaning less anonymity.

Yes of course, why not - that depends on whether the User is a Pessimist or an Optimist.

Feel free to continue to see an half-empty glass of water, while - I choose to enjoy the glass half-full, of wine.

Personally, like most other members of this fraternity - I use Firefox more than I have any use for the outdated Tor (we have superior VPN - for anonymity.) Unlike Tor - Firefox ATM, is irreplaceable.

[2635599]

i'm with dcs18 on this. if tor was already less secure then i seriously doubt comcast would be telling customers to stop using tor or loose your internet.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29534556-CustSvc-Comcast-is-Telling-Customers-to-Stop-Using-the-Tor-Web-Browser-

[steven36]

For along time Tor has been going to the dogs every since they invented the Tor Browser It started out as Valida Bundle that could be used for anything since they stopped making those its never been as good. .. Comcast is one those internet companies are trying to take your internet freedoms away best to switch to another one if you can . Anyways as long as you use Tor with a vpn your internet company cant see your using it no way.

[nIGHT]

Today the Tor Project announced that it will be teaming up with Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox browser, and the Center of Democracy & Technology, an advocacy group for digital rights, as part of a new initiative called Polaris.

Center of Democracy & Technology, an advocacy group for digital rights?

Why is this group interested in privacy tech?

Or maybe they want access to security tech so that they can break it and find a way with it, to steal browsing data. :tehe:

I love firefox!

But, it's hard for me to trust Tor since I read a long time ago that NSA or DOD is funding it, if I'm not mistaken.

And, now this Center of Democracy & Technology, an advocacy group for digital rights, interested in privacy tech? WTF! :rolleyes:

This is really weird! :shit:

[2635599]

Center of Democracy & Technology, an advocacy group for digital rights?

Why is this group interested in privacy tech?

Or maybe they want access to security tech so that they can break it and find a way with it, to steal browsing data. :tehe:

I love firefox!

But, it's hard for me to trust Tor since I read a long time ago that NSA or DOD is funding it, if I'm not mistaken.

And, now this Center of Democracy & Technology, an advocacy group for digital rights, interested in privacy tech? WTF! :rolleyes:

This is really weird! :shit:

http://www.youareanidiot.org/

[steven36]

I love firefox!

But, it's hard for me to trust Tor since I read a long time ago that NSA or DOD is funding it, if I'm not mistaken.

And, now this Center of Democracy & Technology, an advocacy group for digital rights, interested in privacy tech? WTF! :rolleyes:

This is really weird! :shit:

If NSA and DOD was funding it, they would not be selling out to Mozilla , They would not be needing money so bad the project is broke and not secure.

[nIGHT]

Center of Democracy & Technology, an advocacy group for digital rights?

Why is this group interested in privacy tech?

Or maybe they want access to security tech so that they can break it and find a way with it, to steal browsing data. :tehe:

I love firefox!

But, it's hard for me to trust Tor since I read a long time ago that NSA or DOD is funding it, if I'm not mistaken.

And, now this Center of Democracy & Technology, an advocacy group for digital rights, interested in privacy tech? WTF! :rolleyes:

This is really weird! :shit:

http://www.youareanidiot.org/

:)

How much more money do they need?

Is the US government not giving them enough? I no longer use Tor because of it's government funding, has me a bit miffed to be honest.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/29/us-government-funding-tor-18m-onion-router

[steven36]

One the very 1st articles I read about TOR back in like 2007 or 2008 was about how German police bust some people using TOR . But I don't believe conspiracy theories at all . unless there hardcore facts like Edward Snowden leaked not interested unless its facts people on the internet will say anything and some people will fall for it but not everyone. Facts are every since there's been communication devices there's been code to encrypt them. The Governments of the world have been paying scientist and now even hackers to beak the encryption . Some how the USA and other Nations have figured out how to tell were someone is at even when they use TOR . Even the developers have no idea how they done it . And the FBI is not saying how they done it. There's plenty of legitimate uses for TOR like if your blocked from website or something but also there's a very dark side to TOR . As long as your not doing nothing wrong there's nothing to worry about . I use it from time to time with a VPN to see if a site is really down are not . :)

[nIGHT]

It seems a legit news agency and not some conspiracy website.

The Guardian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Additions:

I don't think I've seen Edward Snowden showed a real hardcore facts.

All I've seen were his interviews and testimonials about some spying on the US public and foreign gov't officials.

Well, there were some drawings and names he'd revealed depending on the particular job they were doing like about google server hacking. But that's just it, as I never really paid much attention to it.

Bradley Manning, on the other hand, did an overwhelming act as it provides us with an enormous hardcore porn truths.

From cables, memos and lots and lots of US secrets and its present interest was an eye opener.

That's 4GB of truth. hehehe!

[LORD MADA]

I heard once that Tor has implanted backdoor created by FBI or somethin'...

[2635599]

I heard once that Tor has implanted backdoor created by FBI or somethin'...

and i have some ocean front property in arizona i'll sell you.

[locoJoe]

I heard once that Tor has implanted backdoor created by FBI or somethin'...

Is this what you are referring to?

Tor User Identified by FBI

Eldo Kim sent an e-mail bomb threat to Harvard so he could skip a final exam. (It's just a coincidence that I was on the Harvard campus that day.) Even though he used an anonymous account and Tor, the FBI identified him. Reading the criminal complaint, it seems that the FBI got itself a list of Harvard users that accessed the Tor network, and went through them one by one to find the one who sent the threat.

This is one of the problems of using a rare security tool. The very thing that gives you plausible deniability also makes you the most likely suspect. The FBI didn't have to break Tor; they just used conventional police mechanisms to get Kim to confess.

Tor didn't break; Kim did.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/17/...

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/17/...

http://www.wbur.org/2013/12/18/...

Source: Schneier on Security (www.schneier.com)