[liberationtech] What if Firefox adopts Tor as feature?

[Kyle Maxwell]

I've no idea about the capacity, but I will say that, in a general
sense, this is a relatively insecure method of using Tor. Recent
events have highlighted this, naturally, but Tor works best as network
infrastructure where "split tunnelling" (to borrow a term from VPN
architecture) is not allowed. Perhaps if it were fully sandboxed such
that all communications had to go through a proxy, a la Whonix.

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Lazlo <liberationtech at lazlo.me> wrote:
> Firefox is flirting with idea the to adopt Tor as a feature [1,2]. This
> could easily multiply [3] the number of daily users on the Tor network [4].
> These daily users are not likely to add new capacity to the network. Is the
> Tor network able to handle a sudden peak in usage (there is some
> overcapacity [5]) without a hassle or is there action required?
>
> [1] https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/364265592112414720
> [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901614
> [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Summary_table
> [4] https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html
> [5] https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#bandwidth
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