I, for one, have completely resigned myself to the idea that my employer, government and neighbors know all of the most shameful elements of my Internet usage. I haven't yet seen an approach to the privacy problem that delivers acceptably anonymous results for acceptably low effort, while simultaneously leaving my connection speed and latency relatively intact.<p>My experience with Tor was limited and was several years ago, but it felt like I'd returned to a 28k modem...except the entire Internet had begun to serve content on the implicit assumption that I at least had a few megabits of pipe. Do these routers actually offer a solid cornerstone of the kind of solution I've been waiting for?
I'm a babe in the woods, but I had no idea that I was broadcasting my list of installed system fonts and browser plugins.<p>But it seems to me that this kind of fingerprinting would be pretty easy to defeat if people new it was happening and wanted to defeat it. Something like panoticlick could give advic on fonts and plugins to add to lose yourself in the herd.
Both the original and this retort forget to consider that different users have different needs. Security is never going to be a 'one size fits all' kind of arrangement. Different users will find differing levels of utility in Tor routers.
> we’ve been vocal about the need for people to use privacy add-ons with their web browsers<p>This contradicts what I have read on the Tor Project site:<p>"Site-specific or filter-based addons such as AdBlock Plus, Request Policy, Ghostery, Priv3, and Sharemenot are to be avoided."[1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#philosophy" rel="nofollow">https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#philo...</a>
Perhaps I'm missing something, but isn't the primary argument against Tor routers simply that it's a really bad idea to send <i>all</i> your traffic through Tor? You certainly don't want to be sending logins, banking data, etc., through some unknown exit node. I mean, presumably you can configure the router to only use the network for some traffic, but then what do you gain over using the Tor Browser bundle?