TOR Wants You To Stop Using Windows, Disable JavaScript

itwbennett writes "The TOR Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined the main advantages of the privacy-centered network. The zero-day vulnerability allowed as-yet-unknown interlopers to use a malicious piece of JavaScript to collect crucial identifying information on computers visiting some websites using The Onion Router (TOR) network. 'Really, switching away from Windows is probably a good security move for many reasons,' according to a security advisory posted Monday by The TOR Project."

Re:Proper Summary

[Anonymous Coward]

"They". Good grief. Shave your neckbeard and throw your fedora away. You're a parody of yourself.

Re:Security professionals generally missing the po

[Anonymous Coward]

All my email employment applications are encoded in pictures of cats.

Ooh I Wouldn't do THAT

[Greyfox]

Not using the Internet is a HUGE red flag to the NSA. They'll be all up in your shit if you do that. You know who doesn't use the Internet? Terrorists. Which kind of makes you wonder why they feel they have to monitor the WHOLE FUCKING THING.

Re:Proper Summary

[mrclisdue]

I threw fedora away and went with slackware.

As for the neckbeard, it's chest hair, you insensitive clod.

cheers,

Re:Security professionals generally missing the po

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah! I mean, they can't be watching ALL of us, right?

Re:Security professionals generally missing the po

[Sloppy]

Linus wouldn't fill out the 17 forms required to get a check from the feds, much less submit the monthly progress reports or sign the forms, in triplicate, each month to receive the paper check to be deposited. Goddamn 7 digits, no understanding of the system at all...

Looks like they've got you fooled. For a century, the feds have cultivated the appearance of being a highly inefficient organization that nobody wants to have anything to do with. The reality is that there are no forms or time-wasting meetings, all the people who work there are actually highly motivated and competent, they do things with 5% of budget and then just throw away the other 395% to maintain deception, and they have to hire entire buildings of decoy employees to keep anyone from figuring out how small their core team really is. That Torvalds turned his back on that, just proves that he was too dumb to see through the smokescreen and is therefore too dumb to work for them.