I highly recommend against this. And hope it isn't implemented over the
short-term.
On 30/08/2017 18:52, iry wrote:
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Hi Tails developers!
Several months ago, anonym and I had a discussion about the future of
anon-connection-wizard on the @tor-dev[0], where he said:
That said, this approach will not be viable any more some time next
year when the Firefox ESR branch drops XUL support and Tor Launcher
is deprecated upstream. It remains to see how the replacement of
Tor Launcher will look, it might still work for Tails. However, if
anon-connection-wizard would be a (more or less) drop-in
replacement for Tor Launcher in Tails, that would be immensely
helpful since we'd have a solution that will be guaranteed to work
for us without much work. And I guess as long as the UX is more or
less identical to the new Tor Launcher and rapidly adapts to
changes, and there are good translations, we'd probably prefer it
over the new Tor Launcher, since it probably will be even harder to
decouple from the web browser.
Any way, I also see potential for future collaboration between
Whonix and Tails for extending the usefulness of
anon-connection-wizard beyond what Tor Launcher (and its
replacement) offers [2]; anon-connection-wizard targets the OS, not
just a single application, so it could integrate the choices of
network configuration (wired? which wireless network? MAC
spoofing?) and Tor configuration (proxy? pluggable transport?) in a
single place which probably makes more sense for users and also
allows us to more easily (optionally) save these settings so they
are restored the next time you visit the same network. This could
potentially even be used to help giving users control over entry
node selection to avoid persistent Entry Guards from leaking
information about you geographical movement.
Now, though there are still a lot of improvements can be done,
anon-connection-wizard is mature enough to be integrated into the
upcoming Whonix14.
Therefore, I am wondering if Tails community still consider it as a
good idea to replace Tor-launcher with anon-connection-wizard when it
is mature enough?
Apart from what has been pointed out by anonym above, the following is
some information that may be helpful for your decision:
- - Here is a recent post introducing anon-connection-wizard which also
contains a set of screenshots of it[1]
- - the anon-connection-wizard UI is basing on Linda’s PET paper[2] and
Tor UX team’s proposal[3] to new Tor-launcher.
- - although anon-connection-wizard has not been packaged into Debian
repository, all its dependencies are already available in Debian
- - The future goal of anon-connection-wizard is to be packaged as a
generic standalone application into Debian so that it can be used by
different anonymity focused distributions like Whonix and Tails
- - anon-connection-wizard do not assume user has a Tor or Firefox
browser to use, which is a low-coupling design
Thank you very much!
I am looking forward to hearing your insights and having a further
discussion with you!
Best,
iry
[0]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012032.ht
ml
[1]:
https://forums.whonix.org/t/gsoc-with-tor-and-whonix-anon-connection-wiz
ard/4266
[2]: https://petsymposium.org/2017/papers/issue3/paper2-2017-3-source.pd
f
[3]: https://marvelapp.com/3f6102d/screen/31456320
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