[liberationtech] Tor Browser 6.0.4 is ready for testing

[juan]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:12:28 -0400
Steve Kinney <admin at pilobilus.net> wrote:

> On 08/15/2016 12:24 PM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
> > Uff...  Some months ago, I would be happy.  Now, it means
> > nothing...  :((
> 
> Like any other tool, the TOR Browser has strengths and weaknesses,
> appropriate uses and foolish/destructive uses.
> 
> Lest we forget, Chelsea Manning used TOR to move massive amounts of
> data to Wikileaks.


	Source? And even if that were true, then that would be how he
	got caught? using tor?  Hardly good advertising for tor. I know
	that allegedly he was betrayed, but, you know, "parallel
	construction".


	Truth is, it would have been a lot better for him to copy any
	data he wanted to 'leak' and mail it using 'snail mail'.



>  One can argue that Ed Snowden found what he was
> allowed to find and shipped it to Greenwald & Co. under the approving
> gaze of some compartment at NSA; Manning, not so much.  Billions of
> dollars worth of damage were done to the U.S. National Interest,


	How? Not meaning to badmouth manning, it's not his fault that
	the US is a fascist cesspool, but americans either don't give a
	fuck about their mass murdering government, or cheer for it.


> which is why she rates a sentence of slow death by ritualistic
> torture.
> 
> This recording was never supposed to see the light of day, but it
> walked right out of a tightly secured base and onto the Internet
> within hours: Manning tells all, including how and why to do that
> thing:
> 
> https://freedom.press/blog/2016/04/freedom-press-foundation-publishes-leaked-audio-bradley-manning%E2%80%99s-statement
> 
> -or-
> 
> https://tinyurl.com/jrvbj8o
> 
> She would have gotten away with it, too, if some "individual" who
> needs not be named had not sold her for cheap.


> 
> Onion routing can be a useful part of a complete operational security
> toolkit.   Only when its limitations are understood and pessimistic
> assumptions are made, of course.
> 
> :o)
>