#tor-browser on Hacker News

2 stories tagged tor-browser, newest first.

Screenshot of fingerprint.com: We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities (fingerprint.com)

888 points by danpinto 6 months ago | 269 comments

Fingerprint blog post describing a stable Firefox identifier, reportedly via IndexedDB, that can link a user's separate private Tor Browser identities.

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Screenshot of deform.co: Microsoft Defender was flagging Tor browser as a trojan and removing it

Microsoft Defender was flagging Tor browser as a trojan and removing it (deform.co)

331 points by chatmasta 3 years ago | 95 comments

News article reporting that Microsoft Defender misidentified the Tor Browser as a trojan and removed it from users' systems.

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#tor-browser on Hacker News

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities(fingerprint.com)

Microsoft Defender was flagging Tor browser as a trojan and removing it(deform.co)

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities (fingerprint.com)

Microsoft Defender was flagging Tor browser as a trojan and removing it (deform.co)