Tor now bundled with dev-builds of Brave

in bat •  7 years ago 

I was looking around on my system for any programs running I didn't need or want running. I noticed ports 9280 and 35792 were on. Wasn't sure what it was so I looked at the process and saw it was user tor but I didn't install tor ...

I dug around a bit and sure enough it was coming from the developer version of Brave I was running.

I knew that tor-tabs were in the works but I had no idea it was already working. Open a new tab and you'll see a checkbox mentioning it.

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I grabbed the onion link for DuckDuckGo at https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion, that link will only work if you use the tor network.

Screenshot from 2018-06-05 14-07-22.png

If you want to browse the darkweb or just stay more anonymous using Brave check out this feature in the developer or nightly build here.

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Oh, yeah. Remember seeing something about that. I'm personally not for that. The thing about tor is that if you're not running all your tabs privately, then it's pointless. Even you private browsing can be tracked over tor unless you're running all your tabs privately. I think they should fix that and not allow people the option.

Wrong, it is possible to have a tor and non-tor session from the same computer. https://security.stackexchange.com/q/38316/9472

  1. The responses seem to disagree with each other
  2. I'll look it up, but I read on https://www.torproject.org that insecured sessions can make secure sessions less secure.

This used to exist in the tor browser in < 2011 https://blog.torproject.org/toggle-or-not-toggle-end-torbutton?page=1

Nice writeup kirkins :)
If you wanna have a laugh then check this silly presentation I did on running a Secure Tor Hidden service at an infosec con haha:

Btw Tor is a project which I don't really know how I feel about it, the origins of it atleast are shady.

This is really cool, glad to see Tor tabs are being added to Brave! While I don't use Brave as much as Opera (for now) on the desktop, it's my default browser on my android phone.

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