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Uniting for Internet Freedom: Tor Project & Tails Join Forces (Tor blog)

The online-privacy-focused Tor project has announced that it has "joined forces and merged operations" with the Tails OS Linux distribution.
Countering the threat of global mass surveillance and censorship to a free Internet, Tor and Tails provide essential tools to help people around the world stay safe online. By joining forces, these two privacy advocates will pool their resources to focus on what matters most: ensuring that activists, journalists, other at-risk and everyday users will have access to improved digital security tools.

In late 2023, Tails approached the Tor Project with the idea of merging operations. Tails had outgrown its existing structure. Rather than expanding Tails's operational capacity on their own and putting more stress on Tails workers, merging with the Tor Project, with its larger and established operational framework, offered a solution. By joining forces, the Tails team can now focus on their core mission of maintaining and improving Tails OS, exploring more and complementary use cases while benefiting from the larger organizational structure of The Tor Project.



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Great

Posted Sep 27, 2024 8:29 UTC (Fri) by Subsentient (guest, #142918) [Link] (2 responses)

So now that governments all over the world are banning VPNs, secure messaging apps, and privacy software, you just turned two of the largest targets into one.

Great job.

Great

Posted Sep 27, 2024 23:57 UTC (Fri) by notriddle (subscriber, #130608) [Link] (1 responses)

Tor and Tails are links in a chain, not threads in a rope.

links in a chain, not threads in a rope

Posted Sep 29, 2024 13:45 UTC (Sun) by ryanduve (subscriber, #127786) [Link]

This is a great analogy I have never heard before. I'm going to reach for it the next time I hear two disagreeing parties interpret consolidation as strengthening/weakening some system.

Dysfunctional censorship and dysfunctional "protection" from it...

Posted Oct 22, 2024 19:21 UTC (Tue) by sammythesnake (guest, #17693) [Link]

Using Firefox on my mobile phone, I couldn't get to the blog.torproject.org website using either my mobile internet connection (Giffgaff) or my home broadband connection (Virgin) because of corporate MITM shenanigans. Switching to my laptop, and/or chromium didn't really leave me any better informed, either.

Giffgaff gives me a fake HTTPS certificate, presumably intending to show me a landing page saying why they're blocking the site. Not being able to see it, though, I don't know if it was a case of censorship "gumbimt says no" or activating an "I'm really an adult" type thing...

Virgin just results in a very non-specific error message saying, somewhat omenously: "
Cannot Complete Request - Additional information about this problem or error is currently unavailable.
" Firefox gets copious demerits for such a thoroughly bloody useless error message, there!

It's a bit of a crappy world where I have to resort to Tor to even read about the project (BOO, Giffgaff/Virgin, BOO!) but it's doubly concerning that the way it's implemented/handled obfuscates what's actually going on so effectively until install TorBrowser.

I think that there's a place for a mode in browsers that lets these landing pages through (with an appropriately scary looking warning message saying "THIS IS NOT THE PAGE IT CLAIMS TO BE!!?!‽!¿" or whatever) Sometimes all I'll be seeing is a "log into this WiFi hotspot message, even if somewhat more nefarious possibilities also exist...


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