[guardian-dev] Red Onion - commercial iOS Tor browser

[Nathan of Guardian]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014, at 11:41 PM, Lee Azzarello wrote:
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> On 10/28/14, 11:31 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
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> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014, at 10:48 PM, Lee Azzarello wrote:
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> >> A few weeks ago I spent US $0.99 on Red Onion[1], a
> >> non-jailbreak Tor-like browser for iOS (I'm running iOS 7 on an
> >> iPhone 5) and it's interesting. The progress screen looks very
> >> similar to the stdout from
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> > What does this offer over Onion Browser (our Tor on iOS app of
> > choice!) https://mike.tig.as/onionbrowser/ 
> > https://github.com/OnionBrowser/iOS-OnionBrowser
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> You answered my question with the same question. I don't know. What
> does this offer over Onion Browser?

Nothing apparently. I was just confused why you were bringing it up, and
if you knew about Onion Browser.

> I'm curious how recommendations get made in this app store. Red Onion
> wasn't cross-referenced to Onion Browser.

Yeah, I don't understand how iTunes works on that front. That said, I
hope that if people search for "Tor" or "proxy" in the app store, they
find Onion Browser near the top.

 I'm starting to understand
> why people write to support at guardianproject.info with messages like
> "is this app secure?" There seems to be little to no cross-reference
> of duplicate functionality. I'll post a comment linking to the source
> code of Onion Browser. Thanks Nathan.
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Great idea.