Tor Browser 5.5.2 is released (Feb 12th, 2016)

[grandpaflo]

"Tor Browser 5.5.2 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page[1] and also from our distribution directory[2].

This release features important security updates[3] to Firefox.

Users on the security level "High" or "Medium-High" were not affected by the bugs in the Graphite font rendering library.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html
[2] https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/5.5.2/
[3] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/#firefoxesr38.6.1

The full changelog since 5.5.1 is:

Tor Browser 5.5.2 -- February 12 2016

All Platforms
Update Firefox to 38.6.1esr
Update NoScript to 2.9.0.3"

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What is Tor Browser?

"The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.

The Tor Browser lets you use Tor on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software. It can run off a USB flash drive, comes with a pre-configured web browser to protect your anonymity, and is self-contained (portable)."

- https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

 

[ringtail]

and just remember that NSA and the agency or company that's overseer of YOUR personal security clearance can read your tor traffic in clear.

If you have a security clearance, then a "bug" is staring 100% at your connection to your ISP and sees EVERYTHING in clear that you browse/email.

You look at all that porn using tor, your boss lady knows it ALL, 100%.

They don't call you on it because doing so would reveal that they can read tor in clear. But they PROFILE YOU AND YOUR BROWSING/EMAIL!!! (silently)