Mozilla and TOR join forces in the Polaris initiative in favor of a more private browsing

Mozilla presents his Polaris initiative to restore confidence in private and transparent million users worldwide web browsing.

The first ones have been achieved associate specialists Center for Democracy & Technology , nonprofit organization behind the defense of net neutrality as well as respect for freedoms and human rights, along with the heads of TOR Project, the network of anonymous Internet. With them, we will work on projects that generate useful tools for ordinary people concerned in the management of their information on the web.

Speaks Mozilla Firefox different job showing their focused efforts to privacy (Private mode, special Add-ons, the option Do not Track , encryption in Firefox Sync, etc.) not being sufficient to restore lost trust in recent years by the actions of governments and entities against freedoms on the Internet, provide the basis for new work to enrich the privacy settings in your products, web and mobile.

As an example, working on a project that tries to block access to personal data that some ad networks leverage without user consent to optimize profitability, yet simultaneously is to prevent them from being punished those who generate content and must rely on ad networks. Best Commercials said "yes" but not "well"!

Meanwhile, hand TOR Project who pass receive technical and knowledge infrastructure that maintains its popular network support, it seeks to further develop the work of privacy and compatibility both Firefox as its new browser TOR Browser.And of course, you can not put aside the useful tips in terms of policies that could provide the Center for Democracy & Technology . Finally, new possibilities and hope for those who take privacy as vital, it should be for most.

More information: Mozilla Privacy Blog | Blog of the TOR project | Wiki Polaris

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Facebook begins to support secure access via Tor

Despite all the security measures you have taken to make it easier for Facebook users to use their services safely, now the social network itself pays attention to users accessing the platform through the Tor network using a new experiment just starting, looking to improve the experience in terms of accessibility and security. To do this, have a URL onion, facebookcorewwwi.onion , which may be used only by browsers that support the Tor network by the users who access Facebook through Tor not lose cryptographic protections afforded by this access.

As Facebook continues stating in your ad , the idea is that the direction onionFacebook to connect users to the core infrastructure WWW Facebook, offering end-to-end communication from the browser directly to a data center Facebook. Indicates that you have decided to use SSL security layer on top of this service architectural issues.

Facebook suggests that as a result has provided an SSL certificate on your onion eliminating the SSL certificate warning in the Tor browser, thus increasing the confidence of this service is actually run by Facebook. The social network itself considers this experiment as a novel solution, which serves as an appropriate starting point for discussion, hoping that in time to share some of the lessons they have learned with this experiment.

Later, they incorporated the same support to your mobile web address by onion.

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