[liberationtech] What if Firefox adopts Tor as feature?

[Mike Perry]

You can't have any of these configurations without a browser to begin
with, and serious support from Mozilla would make a number of things
better for Tor users in any number of deployment configurations,
including (and perhaps especially) high security ones.

As for capacity and all of that, we've been consistently adding relays
and capacity, but our userbase has not grown proportionally. My belief
is that this is largely due to usability issues.

In short, I am excited by this news, and I look forward to improving our
communication and cooperation with Mozilla on this front.

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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