[tor-bugs] #17103 [Tor Browser]: Shoulder Browsing/ Low tech surveillance

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#17103: Shoulder Browsing/ Low tech surveillance
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 Reporter:  elypter           |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  project           |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Browser       |        Version:
 Keywords:  shoulderbrowsing  |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                    |         Points:
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 Torbrowser is good for hiding the identity of the user from an adversary
 on the network but what if the adversary is behind his back? often people
 have to fear low tech surveillance. either they have no way to privately
 access a computer (cameras / people in a public place / espionage /
 oppressors) or they dont have an own computer. To make the life of those
 people a bit safer Torbrowser could have a stealth mode that provides
 visual protection in 3 different stages:

 Making Torbrowser pretend being Firefox:
 -Torbrowser should have 2 different profiles. the normal one with
 torbutton, noscript and all the customizations that the user made and the
 carmouflage one that looks like an ususpicious firefox used in the
 environment the user wants to blend in.
 -both should run at the same time. the current page that is being shown
 should be the one the user actually wants to read. the whole interface of
 firefox should be the one of the carmouflage profile. the normal one only
 gets shown if the user holds down the alt key.
 -if the carmouflage interface is being used(not pressing alt) then it
 behaves like the carmouflage profile. clicking on bookmarks shows the
 carmouflage bookmarks, clicking on a tab shows the carmouflage tab...
 so even if someone gets in control over the computer before the user can
 click a panic button he wont see more than the current site the user is
 looking at.
 -ctrl+w could be the low danger panic button (closes current tab and show
 unsuspicous tab instead)
 -F4 could be the high danger panic button (close torbrowser immediately
 and remove itself from disk)

 Carmouflaging the content of the website:
 -Animations and addons should be click to view
 -Big text would be made small
 -Big images would be click to view
 -Audio would be disabled by default
 -Plugins would be click to view

 Carmouflaging that a browsr is being used at all by
 making Torbrowser look like another application(in addition to the normal
 website carmouflage):
 -Remove borders and title bar.
 -Place torbrowser where the text field of an unsuspicious application is
 like inside MS outlook (ghostzilla and ghostfox did this)
 -Hide the user interface (only show using alt)
 -All text would be default color
 -Buttons and other ui elements should mimic normal text
 -no visual styles, no background color, no text backround
 -Small images would be monochrome or greyscale
 -Websites would be editable
 -changing what is viewed under the torbrowser window would make it
 disappear (like opening another mail in outlook)
 -scrolling below or above the end or the beginning of a website scrolls in
 what is behind the torbrowser. if the torbrowser is not visible anymore it
 disappears and leaves the original background behind. the same can be done
 deleting the whole page using backspace.

 ps: writing about this made me remember tiny invaders :)
 http://web.archive.org/web/20021003230748/http://www.tinywindowsgames.com/tiny/
 (the compendium dl works)

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