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blog.torproject.org New Release: Tor Browser 13.5 | Tor Project

Tor Browser 13.5 is now available, featuring a new connection experience for Android, plus improvements to letterboxing, bridges settings, onion site errors and more for desktop.

New Release: Tor Browser 13.5 | Tor Project

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>In that respect, Tor Browser 13.5 feels like a milestone: in addition to the dozens of bug fixes and minor improvements noted in the changelog below, this release features major changes to Android's connection experience in preparation for the future addition of Connection Assist, including full access to Settings before connecting and a new, permanent home for Tor logs.

>For desktop, we're continuing our efforts to improve the user experience of Tor Browser's fingerprinting protections. Following the changes we introduced to new window sizes in Tor Browser 13.0 for Desktop, this release features welcome design changes to letterboxing, including new options to remember your last used window size and adjust the alignment of the letterbox in General Settings. Bridge users will also discover a myriad of improvements to bridge settings, including a complete redesign of bridge cards with improved sharing features, and a new section designed to help you find more bridges elsewhere. Lastly, the design of onion site errors has received a visual refresh aimed at making them consistent with the other kinds of Network Errors you can find in Tor Browser.

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blog.torproject.org New Release: Tor Browser 13.0.16 | Tor Project

Tor Browser 13.0.16 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.

New Release: Tor Browser 13.0.16 | Tor Project
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New Release: Tor Browser 13.0.13

blog.torproject.org New Release: Tor Browser 13.0.13 | Tor Project

Tor Browser 13.0.13 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.

New Release: Tor Browser 13.0.13 | Tor Project

Onion link >This is an unscheduled emergency release with important security updates to Firefox for Desktop platforms. Android is unaffected.

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Tails 6.1

>Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 6.0 to 6.1.

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Lockdown Mode for Android?
  • That's true, all devices are hackable, there's no 100% protection.
    No tool is perfect, but if that's a security improvement, it might be worth enabling.

    I know of at least one instance where lockdown mode protected a user from NSO spyware.
    A Citizen Lab's research confirmed it:

    For a brief period, targets that had enabled iOS 16’s Lockdown Mode feature received real-time warnings when PWNYOURHOME exploitation was attempted against their devices. Although NSO Group may have later devised a workaround for this real-time warning, we have not seen PWNYOURHOME successfully used against any devices on which Lockdown Mode is enabled.

    It is encouraging to see that Apple’s Lockdown Mode notified targets of in-the-wild attacks. While any one security measure is unlikely to blunt all targeted spyware attacks, and security is a multi-faceted problem, we believe this case highlights the value of enabling this feature for high-risk users that may be targeted because of who they are or what they do.

  • Lockdown Mode for Android?

    Is there a fork of Android (or a way to harden it) that locks down the OS similarly to how Apple does it?

    Apple's implementation can actually protect you from commercial spyware. I'm impressed.

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    Mastodon.social outage
  • The instance has too many people registered. It has ~27% of all Mastodon's monthly active users.

    A huge part of the network was down. People should be encouraged to migrate to smaller instances, so we can have better decentralization.

  • The EU Digital Markets Act is here

    element.io The EU Digital Markets Act is here.

    🇪🇺 Happy DMA day, everybody! 🇪🇺 March 7th 2024 is the deadline for large messaging providers (so called ‘gatekeepers’) to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act regulation, which requires them to offer interoperability to third party messaging services. This lets users use their preferred mess...

    The EU Digital Markets Act is here.

    >Element has been working with Meta since the end of last year to help test their DMA interoperability (given we’re probably the world leader in interoperable end-to-end-encrypted communication) - and Matrix announced last month at FOSDEM that Element has successfully integrated 1:1 chats between Matrix and WhatsApp via the DMA APIs, while maintaining end-to-end encryption (having implemented full Signal compatibility in vodozemac). We’ve also formally requested interoperability with WhatsApp, as of yesterday.

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    The Proton VPN Linux app now supports Permanent Kill Switch!
  • All internet connections into and out of your Linux device will now be blocked unless a VPN connection to a Proton VPN server is active.

    If I understand correctly, before version 4.2.0 (that includes the Advanced setting), the kill switch wasn't active until you opened the ProtonVPN program. So if you restarted you PC, it was connecting to the internet without going through the VPN tunnel, so your traffic was somewhat exposed.

    Now, with the new permanent kill switch, there's no internet access without running ProtonVPN.

  • Elizabeth Warren says "Ban Crypto" to stop terrorism financing, but it’s Israel’s Netanyahu that funded Hamas.
  • I'm glad you've edited you're blog post so now the country of Qatar is mentioned, which was not the case before. At least there's some progress here.

    But I believe that your description of the situation is currently still misleading, especially the title "Israel funded Hamas". Again, it might just be a language issue, but It seems like your claim is that Israel took money from its own budget, and gave it to Hamas (directly or indirectly). If that's actually you're claim, there's no source you've cited that actually says that. Is that your claim? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

    It's hard for me to tell if you've actually addressed the point I was making, because all you did is adding quotations. So I don't know if you've accepted my correction that it was not Israeli money nor US tax payers’ money, but in fact was Qatari money, just as your sources say.

    So to be clear, I'm not arguing about the fact that Netanyahu's strategy was to allow Qatari money to be handed to Hamas in Gaza, for the purpose of preventing peace talks with Fatah's Palestinian Authority. That is obviously true.

    [11] Haaretz:

    It’s important to remember that without those funds from Qatar (and Iran), Hamas would not have had the money to maintain its reign of terror, and its regime would have been dependent on restraint.

    In practice, the injection of cash (as opposed to bank deposits, which are far more accountable) from Qatar, a practice that Netanyahu supported and approved, has served to strengthen the military arm of Hamas since 2012.

  • Elizabeth Warren says "Ban Crypto" to stop terrorism financing, but it’s Israel’s Netanyahu that funded Hamas.
  • I support the idea of the use of Monero as digital cash. So obviously I'm against the attempt to ban Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

    English isn't my native language, but I find that your description of the Israel-Hamas situation is misleading. In the same article that you cite, it clearly says that Hamas received money from the Qatari government, that's where the suitcases full of cash came from. It was not Israeli money nor US tax payers' money. The ones funding terror are Qatar and Iran.

  • Verification for Pleroma that is similar to Mastodon?

    joinmastodon.org Verification

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    Verification

    Does Pleroma have a system for verification that is similar to the one Mastodon has?

    And if it has nothing like that, is anyone actively developing it?

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    Tesla Solar Roof Review: Was it Worth It? | MKBHD

    piped.qdi.fi Piped

    An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

    Piped
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