Tor users advised to 'switch away from Windows'

[tater]

Another reason to ditch windows.

http://www.zdnet.com/tor-users-advised- ... 000019047/

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08 ... tor-users/

[musher0]

Thanks for the articles.

[tlchost]

Another reason to ditch windows.

Is it possible this may be a reason to dump Precise 5.7.1, since the new tor, when extracted per their instructions doesn;t seem to run?

Hopefully someone smarter than I can make a pet and sfs that does work.

Thom

[DPUP5520]

Another reason to ditch windows.

Is it possible this may be a reason to dump Precise 5.7.1, since the new tor, when extracted per their instructions doesn;t seem to run?

Hopefully someone smarter than I can make a pet and sfs that does work.

Thom

Odd, the Tor bundle works fine for me in 5.7.1 as long as the clock is set right on your system. What is the problem that you're having exactly?

[tlchost]

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Odd, the Tor bundle works fine for me in 5.7.1 as long as the clock is set right on your system. What is the problem that you're having exactly?

hmmm....from the TOR startup script as modified to make it run:

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#if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
#	complain "The Tor Browser Bundle should not be run as root.  Exiting."
#	exit 1
#fi

So, I'mk really confused how you could have gotten it to run w/o modification, unless you run as spot?

[James C]

Running Tor happily as root in Precise 5.7.1.....no mods...default download.

[James C]

Just downloaded the very latest Tor........ it won't run here either.Something has obviously changed.......

EDIT:

Working now as root in Precise 5.7.1.Substituted the "start-tor-browser" script from the prior version. Just remove the ".tar.gz" from the script....not an archive but renaming necessary to upload to forum.