Luis writes: > What are the reasons that makes building a Tor Browser using Chromium > not such a good idea? I recall reading somewhere that while making a Tor > Browser with a Chromium base would have its benefits due to Chromium's > superior security model (i.e. sandboxing), there are "serious privacy > issues" that would have to be solved to make that possible. > My question is what are those issues? What is preventing someone from > digging out all the Google integration and possible privacy-endangering > features and making a Tor Browser Bundle out of it?
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ImportantGoogleChromeBugs I think that list is kept relatively up-to-date. More generally, there are a lot of customizations in Tor Browser to turn off or alter Firefox features that might identify a user (by making one Tor user's browser look recognizably different from others) or might bypass the proxy (causing the browser to send non-Torified traffic over the Internet). The Tor Project hasn't received a lot of help from the Chromium developers on changes that would be important for making these customizations -- but with or without that help, they would be a lot of work in their own right, just as they were a lot of work on the Firefox side. You can read about some of the customizations in the Tor Browser design document at https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk