On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:36:34PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: > Thus spake sigi (torn...@cpunk.de): > > > Sorry, but at this point, I'm really asking myself, how I can trust > > the concept of the torproject anymore? Some time ago, the users were > > warned about the use of Torbutton with Firefox >3.6 - now the torproject > > recommends to use their TorBrowserBundle - but it has automatic updates > > for the browser included and some DigiNotar certificates? > > You are misunderstanding the situation. See other replies. > > Please bear with us. The DigiNotar fiasco forced us to release the > Firefox 6-based TBBs as "stable" at least 2 weeks early (if not a full > month), because we were unable to do source modifications to Firefox > 3.6 on Windows to properly deal with the certificate updates and the > initial "Dutch exemption". > > We would appreciate it if you tried to help us by diagnosing bugs and > issues rather than calling our integrity into question over bugs that > slipped in during a very high pressure situation.
Pardon me for being so rude. I see how difficult this situation is for you Tor-devs! I think the most confusing point for me is the switch to the TorBrowserBundle. I'm using Tor a lot on my local machine - for xmpp, irc and www, and I'm certain it provides a great service for anonymity. The question for me was, if I can trust this Browser-Bundle enough for now. > > I'm confused. And I'd like some clarification here. Possibly I should > > switch back to my own browser-profile with torbutton? Is it as safe to > > use the Torbrowserbundle, as it was one year ago to use tor with your > > own browser with Torbutton? Is there any improvement? > > We hope to better answer these questions in a Tor Browser Bundle > design document. Just one of the many other items that were supposed > to go into a new "stable" release that got pushed aside due to recent > events: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3812 I'd really like to have such a document. Kudos to you all! Regards, sigi. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
