Tor Browser Bundle 1.2.2 Released

Posted June 24th, 2009 by phobos
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Tor Browser Bundle 1.2.2 is now available. The only change is an update to Pidgin to version 2.5.7. The Pidgin changelog has more information.

A Tor enabled Twitter client would be cool

On June 25th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Guys,

Given what happened in Iran:
- Twitter used to organize resistance
- Twitter users tracked down and arrested

Thinking a Tor enabled Twitter client would be a good tool for folks living in oppressive states, particularly if it could run off an encrypted (TrueCrypt) thumb drive.

Looks like this I guess:

Tor/Twitter Client <-> Tor network <-> Twitter Server

Perhaps it already exists ...

-g

Trojan in your Tor bundle download

On June 26th, 2009 Thistle (not verified) said:

Shortly after I attempted to run the Tor bundle, my system blue-screened and crashed.
My McCaffey antivirus program found a Trojan in the temp/SKYNETxxxxx and quarantined it. No damage done, but please check your downloads for embedded viruses. I would really like to help the Iran protest by running a TOR bridge, but if it takes out my computer, I won't even be able to tweet to support them.

Thistle

HTML 5

On July 1st, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Firefox 3.5 now support HTML5 (audio, video, offline resources, drag and drop, etc). Can these feature affect anonymity? How torbutton manages them?

Potential problems with Firefox 3.5

On July 1st, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Potential problems with Firefox 3.5:

1) geolocation
2) XMLHttpRequest isn't subject to same origin policy anymore
3)drag and drop feature for file, image, document, etc.
4)offline resources
5)DNS prefetching
6)Firefox Worker
7)audo, video, and others multimedia html 5 tag
8)custom protocol handlers
9)possible new CSS attack vectors, such as font-face, media queries.
Is there something else?

Firefox 3.5

On July 2nd, 2009 swisstorexit (not verified) said:

hello,

I will say to wait before install 3.5 while actualy it's tested about privacy and resistance...

I don't know about torbutton and 3.5 but at end of this week i can give a more presice answer.

my best

a new browser

On July 4th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Any news?
I don't think Firefox 3.5 is safe for anonymous browsing.

Is possible for Tor developers to make a new safest browser based on Firefox or Chromium source code?
I've read about the next release of xerobank browser. It will be embedded in a OpenWRT self-contained virtualized environment, with OpenVPN connection.

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