Tor Browser 4.0.3 is released

Well, you can deactivate RC 4.

Type in the address bar of firefox

about:config

then search for "RC 4" or "RC4"

then deactivate all entries listed, so switch from "true" to "false"

that's it ! :)

People who complain are also grateful and appreciate what Tor devs are doing otherwise they wouldn't be using Tor! complaining=/=hate

I concur, keep up the good work!

No. That is untrue.

There is no such thing as Internet police. Laws vary from country to country, so what's legal in one country could be illegal in another.

If you don't take measures to hide your real IP address, and you then start using peer-to-peer sites to obtain content that is protected by Copyright - for example, you download the latest Red Hot Chili Peppers album. Because you are now sharing that with the world (by default with most P2P software), you could end up sharing it with one of many computers that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have set up to trace the sharing of Copyrighted material. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) are the ones who get involved if you've downloaded and shared movies, RIAA take care of music, and so on.

The RIAA, in this example, then go to the local Courts to request a Court Order instructing the Internet Service Provider (ISP) of the IP address to give them the details of the person who used the IP address at the time the Copyright infringement occurred. Details in hand, they go to the Police because you broke the law, and you get a slap on the wrist. It's not exactly a huge criminal act as far as law enforcement are concerned.

With the criminal conviction in the bag, they then set about ruining you financially and they commence legal proceedings against you for sharing content that was Copyrighted, and demand no less than $750 per song shared to any 1 person. So if 100 people downloaded 1 song, they sue you for $75,000. They make up a random number of people that they think have downloaded the Copyrighted material you have made available for downloading, and slap you with a ridiculous bill in the millions that nobody would be able to pay.

There are several horror stories out there of the RIAA bullying families to bankruptcy because their children have been loading up on Copyrighted content, and it's not the downloading that they're hot and bothered about, it's the fact that you made the Copyrighted material available for others to download from you.

I'm not recommending that you break Copyrighted laws at all. However, a service like Tor will cloak your real IP address from any drone computer the RIAA may have set up, and if your IP address is in North Korea, the RIAA don't have jurisdiction there, so they'd have to drop it and move on to the next case, hoping it's easy and straightforward.

Bottom line: Use Tor.
Written by JerryU

There is always a way to track someones i.p. and track their activity. There is internet police, but they don't actually act on something unless it's their own getting threatened. In other words, say for example, you go to a chat site where there are predators on it. You report it to the FBI because there are hackers and stalkers on there. They will blatantly ignore it because they don't consider it a priority, yet, if you send an e-mail to one of them threatening their life, over a sudden it becomes a priority and they're all over you like a pig in sh-t.

When it comes to the RIAA and copyright material, don't worry about it. I've been a pioneer to peer to peer programs and have never been caught on tor. There is a lot of gossip that peer to peer networks may leak information, but that's untrue otherwise I would've gotten notices in the mail like I did when I was testing tor with cable. I was getting them without tor and wasn't getting them with tor. The thing that everyone doesn't know is that when the RIAA began bringing people to court, they had to give back 9 billion dollars because they were illegally hacking computers and claiming people were illegally downloading when they weren't. That was in 2005, after that, the RIAA was scared to death of bringing someone to court in fear of the speculation from the court of them planting copyright material in someones computer for the sake of getting $250,000 from someone. The criminal mind is that it's easier to gain the profit back by falsely accusing someone that way they can gain the money back from what they lost from it. There are people who may say don't encourage copyright "Theft," in reality, the entertainment industry is worth about $90 billion dollars a year. They aren't going bankrupt.

How can we examine the fingerprints of the CA in this case?

you should use tails

Can you imagine how much slower that would make using Tor?

The length should be four relays (at a minimum). That would place (at least) a two-relay onion route between either the entry relay or exit relay and any network observer (at one link) along the path. As it is with third-generation onion routing, the fixed three relay length allows the middle relay to know the IP addresses of both the entry and exit relays (as well as the timing information) of every circuit it serves as a middle relay for.

Since onion routing does not protect against an adversary that can see both endpoints of the onion route, no observer should know the physical locations of both endpoints, let alone so easily and with certainty.

Please see the paper "A Peel of Onion" by Paul Syverson at https://www.acsac.org/2011/program/keynotes/syverson.pdf section 4 for some of the rationale behind the circuit length design choices for each of the three generations of onion routing.