“That’s money that has to come out of Tor’s very limited donations,” Boyce says. ICANN, the international group that coordinates the Internet address system, charges up to $4,000 to take down websites serving malware infested version of Tor. “Tor works hard to try and get them shut down, but it’s hard because the process takes time and costs a lot of money.” “People with bad intentions set up mirrors to serve software that includes injected advertisements or other badness,” Griffin Boyce, a prominent hacker who works for the Tor Project, tells the Daily Dot. None of that matters, of course, if users are easily duped into downloading a fake product laden with malicious code-something that’s recently become a cause for concern. It’s loathed by government spies and corporate data collectors, and this week became the most secure way to update your Facebook News Feed.
Personally, I don't have a problem with the tag being changed.One of the most widely used tools for protecting online anonymity is the Tor Browser. Having said all that, I don't know whether it actually matters that other documentation still uses the terms interchangeably.Ī final point to make is that the Tor Blog still tags releases of Tor Browser with the Tor Browser Bundle tag (as well as Tor Browser and TBB) so we would be ahead of the Tor Blog if we get rid of the Tor Browser Bundle tag. In this example there is only a single occasion where Tor Browser Bundle is used interchangeably but there are plenty of other less reputable websites newcomers to Tor may be visiting for information that frequently use Tor Browser Bundle interchangeably, either because they are out of date or just inaccurate generally. This is both in documentation on the Tor website and on other sites, take for example this fairly recent guide posted on the EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense website.
However the reality is that even though a lot of work has been done to update the documentation on the Tor website, there are still many uses of Tor Browser Bundle where Tor Browser is intended. Mike suggested to Change Tor Browser Bundle to Tor Browser in package strings, download pages, and docs. Mike Perry opened a ticket almost two years ago after the packages names were changed.
It's true that we are heading towards having the name changed to Tor Browser everywhere.
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