Attackers wield Firefox exploit to uncloak anonymous Tor users (ars technica)
Attackers wield Firefox exploit to uncloak anonymous Tor users (ars technica)
Posted Aug 6, 2013 17:54 UTC (Tue) by rahvin (guest, #16953)In reply to: Attackers wield Firefox exploit to uncloak anonymous Tor users (ars technica) by k8to
Parent article: Attackers wield Firefox exploit to uncloak anonymous Tor users (ars technica)
This is very important and I'm glad you posted it. Those Syrian rebels using TOR need to understand that this is a non-trivial task, without some custom configuring you can read cookies and other information that can identify the user. If you use the TOR browser bundle at start up it checks for a new version, it also provides no-script by default and setups all the little configuration details to ensure there is no access to cookies or other identifying information. The rebels lives depend on their identities not being revealed and they aren't the only group of people in this world that need the protection of anonymous browsing.
