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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by Spooky23 on Friday June 01, 2018 @04:57PM (#17210208)
The risk now is that some bad actor is replacing TLS certificates, which is an uncommon and tamper-evident event. Tor is handing your traffic to an unknown 3rd party.

Plus, users do not understand what Tor is or how to use it.

Fighting political battles with software is dumb — the end result is going to be a permanent loss of freedom, as governments force the use of platforms with trusted app stores.

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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by sp332 on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:05PM (#17210296)
The risk now is BGP hijacking. Or really just normal operation of BGP. You data could go anywhere on the planet on its way to the destination and you're not going to know ahead of time what path any particular packet will take.

If you're using TLS, it doesn't matter so much if the exit node is malicious because they still won't be able to read it.

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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by Spooky23 on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:38PM (#17210628)
How about my compromised browser exfiltrating information to an onion address?

Obviously I’m being downvoted into oblivion, but I truly feel this is a solution looking for a problem.

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