I think this strays a bit far afield from tor-dev, but.. If an academic group was interested in basically redesigning the web to be more sane, then Servo might be a good place to start. There are a whole bunch of things one could do, like forcing much more to be catchable by using content based addressing, restrict cross site/origin communication to be with single use blind signed tokens and/or involve user approval, restrict the role of javascript, embed a better PKI, etc. All the stuff that TBB cannot do because it'd break to many sites. In short, one could attempt to build a better freenet using grants for "security" work. And the long game would be to guilt the browser makers and web standards people into tightening things up. On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 20:57 +0100, Jeff Burdges wrote: > On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 16:21 +0000, Spencer wrote: > > At what point do the efforts to patch Firefox out weigh the efforts > > to build a browser from scratch? > > Browsers are extremely complicated. > > If you want to explore Mozilla's efforts to build a more modern > browser, then I suggest you look over and build Servo: > > https://github.com/servo/servo > https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Design > https://servo.org/ > > It's cool to imagine free software and privacy communities turning > Servo into a viable browser that caters to their interests. Afaik, > Servo is the only realistic option for minimizing C code in the > browser > too. In reality, Servo fails to render much of the web correctly > because it's a messy problem. > > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
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