On 2012-09-10, at 8:56 AM, adrelanos wrote: > antispa...@sent.at: >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012, at 00:21, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: >>> It would facilitate the inclusion of Tor in third party applications >>> that include/bundle/redistribute Tor, regardless of the Linux >>> Distribution. >> >> Sounds like a potential risk, the third party intervention. See the >> discussion about the other TorBrowser. > > I don't share your security concern. Using any third party application > is always a security risk. If they include a software library or binary > doesn't change much from that view. A software library might even add > advantages. > > There are other application developers who want to integrate Tor into > their applications, for example BitCoin, OperaTor, torchat, > pidgin-torchat, jtorchat and other third party browser bundles combined > with Tor...
Why don't they do all that now? Tor is free software. Because they can't be bothered to read the code. Which means they're likely to misuse a libtor anyway. And including dependencies in software you distribute is bad practice. "Anonymity" depends on the entire stack from the transport to the application. IMHO, putting a Tor sticker on everything will distract from that fact. Mansour _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
