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Stable Version
Good, I have installed the Stable Version that is hanging around the internet, does this work 100% and will it update automatically?
tomscharbach - I had Tor Browswer for a short time. The Onion Network is unstable at best. It's basically a world of overdramatization (on youtube), piracy and teens seeing too many 90's hacking movies and thinking they're in the Matrix or something. When I would check out any chat forums or chat rooms they were mostly filled with pervs and pedos. Why I dropped it, I found it pointless to use.
Anyhow When I went to the "about" part of the browswer it would refernece it back to Firefox ESR. Not on the desktop browswer (anymore...I think) but on the app it still does. Yes, it does add it's own "codec" and all that stuff built on top of Firefox ESR that suppose to make the user more secure and "hidden" but it's not as as secure as people think. The FBI used a security issue/bug in FireFox ESP that was being used by Tor and nailed a lot of illegal activity. Firefox went through the roof with that. Most users htink Tor is it's own source engine browswer not knowing it's sourced off Firefox/Gecko.
Anyhow...I download Tor for Andorid browswer an hour ago to see, and if I put in about:firefox it comes up with the about page of "Firefox ESR 60.0.8".
Here's that link about the FBI bust and Mozilla reaction to it: https://thehackernews.com/2016/05/fbi-tor-firefox.html?m=1
Anyhow When I went to the "about" part of the browswer it would refernece it back to Firefox ESR. Not on the desktop browswer (anymore...I think) but on the app it still does. Yes, it does add it's own "codec" and all that stuff built on top of Firefox ESR that suppose to make the user more secure and "hidden" but it's not as as secure as people think. The FBI used a security issue/bug in FireFox ESP that was being used by Tor and nailed a lot of illegal activity. Firefox went through the roof with that. Most users htink Tor is it's own source engine browswer not knowing it's sourced off Firefox/Gecko.
Anyhow...I download Tor for Andorid browswer an hour ago to see, and if I put in about:firefox it comes up with the about page of "Firefox ESR 60.0.8".
Here's that link about the FBI bust and Mozilla reaction to it: https://thehackernews.com/2016/05/fbi-tor-firefox.html?m=1
These days TOR is mostly used by the same people you describe, desperate to find out what the dark web is and all the filth in it. but little do they know, there is no search engine for dark web lol.
it's not like there is no organization in the world that can't stop it though. of course they can, they just don't want to.
image if FBI could pull that hack off against TOR users then what NSA could do!
right now TOR is not as safe as it used to be say in 2014 when Ed Snowden used to talk about it.
there are also some people that use it to circumvent censorship such as people in China or other countries with domestic firewall or even DPI censorship and TOR is great for them because of custom relays and stuff.
it's not like there is no organization in the world that can't stop it though. of course they can, they just don't want to.
image if FBI could pull that hack off against TOR users then what NSA could do!
right now TOR is not as safe as it used to be say in 2014 when Ed Snowden used to talk about it.
there are also some people that use it to circumvent censorship such as people in China or other countries with domestic firewall or even DPI censorship and TOR is great for them because of custom relays and stuff.