Make human summary of Tor Browser design doc

We should create a brief human-readable summary of the privacy properties of TBB, based on the Design Requirements.

We should probably include this in the short user manual, or on the download page, or both.

See also https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-January/022899.html.

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Yes please. This would be great.

The short manual lives in https://www.torproject.org/dist/manual/. #4983 (closed) is the ticket to include it in TBB.

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Priority: normal to major

#5721 (moved) also wants us to mention New Identity. Dupping it here.

Taking me off of this. I don't speak human.

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Owner: mikeperry to N/A
Component: Firefox Patch Issues to Company
Status: new to assigned

Now that the ticket has fallen into the "important thing that nobody is working on" category, I'm giving it a milestone that will help Karsten keep track of it.

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Status: assigned to new
Milestone: TorBrowserBundle 2.3.x-stable to Sponsor Z: March 1, 2013

I finally took a look at the TSUM, and I think it has a lot of problems (#5811 (moved)). We probably need someone dedicated to testing our documentation in front of normal people...

Here's a direct link to the TBB privacy properties that need to be translated from mentat to human: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#privacy

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Parent: N/A to #5811 (moved)

mikeperry: if you can write up (or point to) a summary of attacks in mentat, I think that'd be an easier way to explain why you need TBB than trying to translate its privacy properties per se. Probably, a partial list of attacks could be inferred from the torbutton/tbb design docs. Alternatively, if somebody writes such a list as a set of bullet points, a humanese speaker might be able to expand them.

This would be a good project for somebody who wants to come up to speed on TBB design.

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Cc: N/A to nickm

Hrmm.. Well, a root issue here is that most of these "attacks" are actually considered features by other browsers. In particular: the ability to track users across different sites is totally awesome from the perspective of browser makers.

I think we'll have the best results somehow contrasting the cross-site unlinkability properties/goals of TBB (https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#privacy) with the cross-site tracking features provided by other browsers, but at a very very high level.

I think most normal people might actually be pretty ignorant of how Google can for example track their activity across the whole web, not just on Google's sites.

I think specific attacks is of course way too low-level for the output. I think it's even way too low level for the input, because it probably will bias thinking away from simplicity.

Now, in interest of full disclosure, one of the reasons I am not running at this task personally is because I feel slightly guilty communicating these high level ideas to the general public while we still have quite a few known direct violations of them open in our bugtracker: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?keywords=tbb-linkability https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?keywords=tbb-fingerprinting

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Cc: nickm to nickm, runa

Switching from using milestones to keywords for sponsor deliverables. See #6365 (moved) for details.

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Milestone: Sponsor Z: March 1, 2013 to N/A
Keywords: N/A deleted, SponsorZ added

Related to #6567 (moved): TorButton FAQ outdated

Related to #6563 (moved): List of recommended Firefox extensions - time to take it down?

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Cc: nickm, runa to nickm, runa, adrelanos@riseup.net

This should be part of the introduction of the Tor Browser User Manual.

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Parent: #5811 (moved) to #10974 (moved)
Keywords: SponsorZ deleted, SponsorO added

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Component: Company to Tor bundles/installation

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Username: michael
Cc: nickm, runa, adrelanos@riseup.net to nickm, runa, adrelanos@riseup.net, michael@schloh.com

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Keywords: N/A deleted, needs-triage added

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Component: Tor bundles/installation to Tor Browser
Keywords: needs-triage deleted, N/A added