Joseph Lorenzo Hall: > > On 8/6/13 6:41 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >>> (2) Even have an RSS feed of them available through the TBB, as well as RSS >>> of TBB releases, and what security issues are covred including one advised >>> by Firefox. This could notify of stable, alpha and beta releases, so >>> everyone knows when security updates are available, possibly at the cost of >>> stability. >> >> I like this idea - though I wonder how users would feel about it? Will >> they read it? Should it be our own RSS feed or an RSS feed of Mozilla's >> data? > > Not sure if this is practical but the TBB splash screen could give some > notion of the implications of using an old specific TBB... e.g., with > the version check return one or more critical vulns that have been > patched, to warn the user and encourage immediate update?
We do have an update indicator - soon, we'll have an updater as well, I think. We had a few discussions about it at the TorDev meeting in Munich last month. > > Frankly, I'm not sure this is solving a problem Tor/TBB has, but it > strikes me that a warning along the lines of the following for old TBB > would not be bad: "Holy shit, this TBB is from 12 months ago! You're > crazy to use such an outdated version. Please update!" > We do put a fairly large message on the splash page. We could probably improve the warning page based on elapsed time - currently it is just one page locally stored, I think. All the best, Jacob -- Liberationtech list is public and archives are searchable on Google. Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
