It’s a interesting / tempting idea…
Why doesn’t Tor Project (TPO) do that?
Does anyone else do that such as Tails?
I am hesitant about changing defaults in Tor or Tor Browser.
In…
permission to install Tor Browser by default in Whonix
Roger Dingledine:
- Is the Tor Browser that Whonix wants to ship modified in any way from the Tor Browser that you get from the Tor website?
By making a change, we might loose permission to install Tor Browser by default in Whonix. It’s not clear from the ticket. Could be interpreted either way.
They may or may not object. If allowed, we’d still need to figure out how to make this change in a reliable way. Most likely we should upstream a patch so this can be enabled through an environment variable.
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A general Whonix design principle is to keep the Tor process as uniform as possible, in order to simplify any security audits. Diverging from this practice would introduce unnecessary complexity, possibly worsen fingerprinting or degrade anonymity, and limit Whonix discussions to the security impacts of the modified routing algorithm.
So once we get into browser modifications, simple answers such as “same as Tor Browser” are no longer possible.