Next up? Sandbox protection for Windows users. Therefore, 'the amount of information Tor Browser will learn about your computer, and thereby you, will be limited,' Angel said.Īt the time of that interview last October, the sandbox was still unstable and very much in testing, but the recent update has brought the digital safe-zone online for Linux and macOS, and by default. The college philosophy class you barely remember aside, what the sandbox does is hides your files, your real IP address and your MAC address from the browser. We prevent it from interacting with the rest of your computer (the outside world), except via the Tor Network (shadows on the wall).' 'The only reality Tor Browser knows is inside of the sandbox (cave). 'It's like Plato's Allegory of the Cave,' Tor developer Yawning Angel said.

0 version introduces a sandbox feature that, according to an interview on the Tor blog, should 'make life a lot harder' for people using a Firefox exploit to discern the identities of a user. The latest update for privacy-minded folks' favorite way to surf the web should make others' attempts at tracking what they do even more difficult.

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