Earlier History
In
autumn 2014, rumors circulated that anonymity network Tor was in talks
with Mozilla over adding Tor's private browsing mode to its popular open
source web browser, Firefox. Mozilla initiated the development of a new
privacy initiative called Polaris, and the potential collaboration with
the Tor anonymity network could bring even more privacy features into
Mozilla's products.
With their benefits and disadvantages, both
companies have numerous reasons for uniting their efforts. They share a
similar noble aspiration of giving web users more secure and safer
browsing experience, as well as options of better web surfing, online
privacy and anonymity.
Back in 2013, notorious NSA leaks
kickstarted a new corporate concern for privacy. Since then, thriving
cybercrime and rapidly increasing global digital censorship and
surveillance have driven the world's biggest companies to take to
encryption. Tor was engaged in talks with Internet service providers,
hardware manufacturers, and software development firms about potentially
integrating Tor into their products. Tor executive director Andrew
Lewman said: "Privacy is becoming the hot new buzzword for products to
include".
Technically, in case of agreement undertaking, there
were several key challenges that Tor's developers had to face as per
growing network capacity, and such work could take up to a year to
complete. So it happened.
Recent Events
Summer 2016, the
continuation of "Mozilla & Tor" saga took place. The Nightly build
of Firefox 50 started integrating features that originated in Tor. While
only a few are available, it appears several more changes will be made
public soon. Right now, there are 3 patches:
• tool to prevent attackers from listing what types of plugins and mime Types the user's browser supports,
• tool to prevent finding out if the user's browser is using a landscape or other orientation,
• tool to remove the "Open With" option in the download dialog.
These
features provide privacy-friendly users with better options to harden
the browser against browser fingerprinting. A third-party can
fingerprint users by collecting second-stage information such as
supercookies, HTML5 canvas details, screen size, color depth, time zone
settings, WebGL details, mouse movements, and so on. These data are
combined to create a very accurate fingerprint of users when they access
other websites, even if their real IP address is never revealed. Online
advertising agencies and crooks running exploit kits also employ
fingerprinting for normal Web traffic in order to select and categorize
users.
Future Plans
Mozilla's plans as for the Tor
improvements' integration include eight patches that are currently being
worked on, and four that are already integrated in Firefox. Wait and
see what Mozilla has in stock for our security.
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