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Tor Browser v3.6 - Anonymity Online and defend yourself against network surveillance and traffic analysis
The Tor Browser Bundle lets you use Tor on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software. It can run off a USB flash drive, comes with a pre-configured web browser to protect your anonymity, and is self-contained.
Changelog v3.6
Here is the complete changelog since TBB 3.5.4:
- All Platforms
- Update Firefox to 24.5.0esr
- Include Pluggable Transports by default:
- Obfsproxy3 0.2.4, Flashproxy 1.6, and FTE 0.2.13 are now included
- Bug 11586: Include license files for component software in Docs directory.
- Bug 9010: Add Turkish language support.
- Bug 9387 testing: Disable JS JIT, type inference, asmjs, and ion.
- Update NoScript to 2.6.8.20
- Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.5.4
- Bug 9665: Localize Tor’s unreachable bridges bootstrap error
- Bug 10418: Provide UI configuration for Pluggable Transports
- Bug 10604: Allow Tor status & error messages to be translated
- Bug 10894: Make bridge UI clear that helpdesk is a last resort for bridges
- Bug 10610: Clarify wizard UI text describing obstacles/blocking
- Bug 11074: Support Tails use case (XULRunner and optional customizations)
- Bug 11482: Hide bridge settings prompt if no default bridges.
- Bug 11484: Show help button even if no default bridges.
- Update Torbutton to 1.6.9.0:
- Bug 11242: Fix improper “update needed” message after in-place upgrade.
- Bug 10398: Ease translation of about:tor page elements
- Bug 9901: Fix browser freeze due to content type sniffing
- Bug 10611: Add Swedish (sv) to extra locales to update
- Bug 7439: Improve download warning dialog text.
- Bug 11384: Completely remove hidden toggle menu item.
- Backport Pending Tor Patches:
- Bug 9665: Report a bootstrap error if all bridges are unreachable
- Bug 11200: Prevent spurious error message prior to enabling network.
- Bug 5018: Don’t launch Pluggable Transport helpers if not in use
- Bug 9229: Eliminate 60 second stall during bootstrap with some PTs
- Bug 11069: Detect and report Pluggable Transport bootstrap failures
- Bug 11156: Prevent spurious warning about missing pluggable transports
- Mac:
- Linux:
- Windows:
- Bug 9308: Prevent install path from leaking in some JS exceptions on Mac and Windows
Here is the changelog since the 3.6-beta-2:
- All Platforms
- Update Firefox to 24.5.0esr
- Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.5.4
- Update Torbutton to 1.6.9.0
- Update NoScript to 2.6.8.20
- Update fte transport to 0.2.13
- Backport Pending Tor Patches:
- Bug 11156: Additional obfsproxy startup error message fixes
- Bug 11586: Include license files for component software in Docs directory.
- Windows and Mac:
- Bug 9308: Prevent install path from leaking in some JS exceptions on Mac and Windows builds
[Orbot] Mobile Anonymity + Circumvention
Orbot is a free proxy app that empowers other apps to use the internet more securely. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt your Internet traffic and then hides it by bouncing through a series of computers around the world. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.
Orbot is the only app that creates a truly private internet connection. As the New York Times writes, “when a communication arrives from Tor, you can never know where or whom it’s from.” Tor won the 2012 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Pioneer Award.
Tor Browser Bundle 3.5
The 2.x stable series of the Tor Browser Bundle has officially been deprecated, and all users are encouraged to upgrade to the 3.5 series.
Packages are now available from the Tor download page as well
as the Tor Package archive.For now, the Pluggable Transports-capable TBB is still a separate package, maintained by David Fifield.
For people already using TBB 3.5rc1, the changes are not substantial, and are included below.
However, for users of TBB 2.x and 3.0, this release includes important security updates to Firefox. All users are strongly encouraged to update immediately, as we will not be making further releases in the 2.x or 3.0 series.
In terms of user-facing changes from TBB 2.x, the 3.x series primarily features the replacement of Vidalia with a Firefox-based Tor controller called Tor Launcher. This has resulted in a vast decrease in startup times, and a vast increase in usability. We have also begun work on an FAQ page to handle common questions arising from this transition -- where Vidalia went, how to disable JavaScript, how to check signatures, etc.
The complete changelog for the 3.x series describes the changes since 2.x.
The set of changes since the 3.5rc1 release is:
- All Platforms
- Update Tor to 0.2.4.19
- Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.4.2
- Bug 10382: Fix a Tor Launcher hang on TBB exit
- Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.2
- Misc: Switch update download URL back to download-easy
[Tor-ramdisk] Micro Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to securely host a Tor server purely in RAM
Tor-ramdisk is a uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to securely host a Tor server purely in RAM. For those not familiar with Tor, it is a system which allows the user to construct encrypted virtual tunnels which are randomly relayed between Tor servers (nodes) until the connection finally exits to its destination on the internet. The encryption and random relaying resist traffic analysis in that a malicious sniffer cannot easily discover where the traffic is coming from or what data it contains. While not perfect in its efforts to provide users with anonymity, Tor does help protect against unscrupulous companies, individuals or agencies from "watching us". For more information, see the Tor official site.
The usefulness of a RAM only environment for Tor became apparent to me when Janssen was arrested by the German police towards the end of July, 2007. (You can read the full story in a CNET article.) While the police did not seize the computer for whatever reasons, they certainly could have. More typically, it would have been taken for forensic analysis of the data on the drives. Of course, if the computer housing the Tor server has no drives, there can be no question that it is purely a network relaying device and that one should look elsewhere for the "goods".
Other advantages became clear:
- It is useful to operators that want all traces of the server to disappear on powerdown. This includes the private SSL keys which can be housed externally.
- The environment can be hardened in a manner specific to the limited needs of Tor.
- It has the usual speed advantages of diskless systems and can run on older hardware.
The only known disadvantage is that it cannot host Tor hidden services which would require other services (e.g. http), and their resources (e.g. hard drive space), in addition to the Tor server itself. However, as a middle or exit node, it is ideal.
