Re:Tor Browser 6.0 is released
by schoen on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @12:59PM
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The parent commenter is referring to application-layer attacks, which is why the Tor Project deprecated things like TorButton in favor of a dedicated Tor Browser, and why they discourage things like having a router that sends all traffic over Tor by default (because random applications will reveal trackable identifiers!).
There's probably a more specific statement from the Tor Project that I'm forgetting at the moment that sets forth the idea that you should only use Tor with Tor-aware client software (that controls what privacy leakages may occur at the application layer).
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/leet11/tech/full_papers/...
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/
There's probably a more specific statement from the Tor Project that I'm forgetting at the moment that sets forth the idea that you should only use Tor with Tor-aware client software (that controls what privacy leakages may occur at the application layer).