[tor-talk] "EVIL bug" Linux Tor Browser Bundle (2.2.35-8)

[Andreas Krey]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:54:34 +0000, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
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> clarissab, I can't tell what you meant by "Drama."
> Could you expand some on the HUGE "conspiracy"?  How would it be 
> possible for Tor, Firefox & Vidalia NOT to talk over localhost?  Why is 
> this a conspiracy?

He thinks doing communication on localhost has the same threat potential
as having history lying around on the local disk. (Which isn't the case.
For an engineer a bug may be trivial that isn't for the customer, whose
life, in this case, could depend on it.)

Andreas

-- 
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800