Tor being forked.

[Mirimir]

On 08/20/2016 01:05 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 12:40:43AM -0600, Mirimir wrote:
>> I don't see the point. As Juan so likes to remind us, Tor design is
>> fundamentally flawed, in that it's vulnerable to global adversaries.
>> Which, in practice, means US military. So how would a fork not be
>> vulnerable as well? Instead, why not develop something better?
> 
> Agreed. As I read it, this is not Tor fork, just the browser, right?

| Short Term: Achieve technical parity with regard to security and
| features to predecessor codebases through rapid inclusion of
| upstream commits.
| Short Term: Add functionality to allow browser users to select
| chosen network traversal method (Tor vs Independent Onion Routing).
| Short Term: Begin Independent Onion Router network infrastructure
| deployment.

Right. I was referring to "Independent Onion Router network".