Do you think there will ever be a tor type of mode on common browsers like there is incognito or in private modes?


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[6 Points] samwhiskey:

Not anytime soon. No one wants the government heat on them.


[5 Points] None:

I wouldn't trust it if there was


[2 Points] sapiophile:

This is actually in the pipeline for Mozilla Firefox. They're basically intending to integrate Tor into the same Firefox that everyone uses, as a selectable privacy mode. At least, that was the implication that I read a year or so ago when Tor Project and Mozilla officially announced a partnership.


[2 Points] ScoopDat:

Well even Tails is t safe let alone Tor to the extent we like to believe. The biggest ignorance we have is reserved for our ignorance of hardware backdoor tech like the one found in every single Intel CPU on the market for the past decade. They utilize something called an Intel Management Engine which is a totally separate core that is not picked up by UEFI/BIOS, and especially no OS currently in existence.

Since its the pinnacle of closed source software/hardware merge, we don't even know it's full capabilities since no one has ever managed to get any sort of real access or reverse engineering of that core on the diode.

There has been no documented leak or revealed instance where Intel has abused this level of access, but who knows what goes on behind the veil, and what someday a partnership with government on the matter would look like.

Until now, there has been no single consumer oriented open sourced hardware released aside from extremely costly workstation and server configurations. There was though a recent company with a crowd source funded project that is building an open sourced hardware computer motherboard (ATX sized, so it can used in a normal sized computer tower and not one of those insane server motherboards that have multi CPU sockets that cost a fortune)that will use the Power8 CPU which is also open sourced. The only inconsistency in my post here is that I may have subjectively lied about how this is consumer ready (even though it will be a motherboard that can fit in a regular sized desktop tower) is the comment I made how the server motherboards cost a fortune as if to imply this one doesn't cost a lot. The starting price for simply the motherboard is $4000 and a normally preconfigured system will cost $13,000. That is the current and only option that exists for open sourced hardware for normal folks.

The second problem if you don't believe in this Intel Management Engine to be the next backdoor of the masses, is simply Windows10 being a spyware as an OS itself. While you may connect to Tor or whatnot, who knows the depth of telemetry this POS can tap into? Honestly, it's simply not worth the nonsense of trying to make something like privacy work on the backbone of the crooked systems of computers we have today, it needs to be done from the ground up, and it needs to be open sourced, both hardware and software. Anything short of that is circumstantial and wishful thinking until shit decides to it the fan at a time. But people haven't been abused enough for the threshold of dissatisfaction to inspire the demand for change and for the demand to have open sourced options, partially because when they learn that freedom ain't cheap, they'll resort to complacency as we see today for many factors in life from economics/climate/politics/war.


[1 Points] flesy:

tor button


[0 Points] gh0stpanther:

I think there is all you do is type the onion address and add ".to" at the end