TorFox
Posted on 24 June 2009
From: torfox.orgJust because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean somebody's not logging your web activity surreptitiously.
Lucky for you, there's TorFox, a new mashup that marries the open-source Firefox web browser with the venerable Tor anonymizing web router service. The browser can be loaded up on a USB stick and run on any PC without writing any logs, cookies or private information to the host machine.
TorFox is available as a free download for Windows users only (for the time being) from TorFox.org and the project page on Google Code.
Such enhanced privacy tools are usually trumpeted by only the most security-minded geeks. But it's not just the tin-foil-hat-wearing, Orwellian-prophecy-spewing, Linux-kernel-hacking weirdos who benefit from more secure browsing tools.
As one of the TorFox programmers writes in to tell us, the specialized browser blocks JavaScript and CSS exploits, so you don't get clickjacked or pwned like this. Also, all content requiring Java or Adobe Flash Player is blocked.
According to the project page, TorFox achieves its heightened security through a series of "API hooks and DLL injection hacks". Furthermore: "Ideally, we want to completely remove all direct communication between Firefox and the localhost. Instead, all address lookups are done through tor-resolve and all connections are made through tor socks server."
A better machete with which to navigate the jungle.
