Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 is released

I understand and appreciate your point, it's a valid point, throwing away things written by nice volunteers is not a good way to have a community.

However I think that you are dangerously misplaced in so far as your assessment of the potential and actual harms in the situation being discussed.

Yes, the NSA is my and every bodies adversary because they are the predominant force committing these illegal and damaging hacks.

You might have given up any hope of defending from them, but thank god that many/most of us have not and never will.

Whatever can be done to defend, should be done, simple.

Even if it is just to defend against the NSA finding out one little minor piece of personal info that is not really vital or damaging because it is NONE OF THEIR DAMN BUSINESS and they are doing both minor and major infractions of privacy to MILLIONS of individuals daily adding up to untold and gargantuan suffering/hurt/harm amongst unsuspecting innocent humans both men, women and children.

Therefore, such things as a few hurt feelings that may be felt by a volunteer who's creation is removed or modified simply pales in comparison to the truly deeply damaging outcomes that can and do occur when the NSA gets root on a Linux box or drops a Trojan on a Winblows box.

I'm thinking of a activist who is working to promote knowledge amongst the general population of the systematic yet semi-covert stripping of the few remaining civil rights of the citizen against the unlimited power of the state.

The NSA identifies this individual via the repeated keywords of interest like 'civil liberties', 'protest', 'freedoms', 'tyrannic' etc etc that it keeps pulling from data steams of this individuals internet activities via Deep packet inspection using its fiber splitters in its secret rooms at the major ISP's

It then performs a MITM on this individual, redirecting them to a Foxacid server and uses a 0-day to compromise their OS.

From there, analysts pour over the PC's contents, determine that this individual is indeed a determined champion of personal liberties and is actively taking daily measures to work towards thwarting Big Govts Orwellian agenda.

The NSA then decides that this individual is a true threat to the Govt's planned totalitarian dictatorship and so contacts the FBI and hands over a dossier of info from the compromised PC (planted illegal materials) along with giving the FBI the PC's encryption key that they obtained from RAM.

They instruct the FBI to use 'parallel construction' to recreate the investigation trail to say that they obtained the password voluntarily from the PC's owner in a their word against ours scenario and proceed to federally prosecute the poor individual for whatever they planted on the PC.

They successfully remove the threat to their most evil plans.

All that is not to mention, senators whos PC's are breached and secrets stolen and used to blackmail them into silence and compliance in voting for whatever bills the blackmailers want them to vote on or reject.

Why do you think that congress recently just gave the NSA an additional 60 MILLION to spend on tightening security against whistle blowers ? No senator is going to vote for that of their own free will, just look at the slow turn of the tide of opinion amongst congressmen towards wanting to rein in the NSA. Knowing it is wrong and wanting to rein it in is their true desire from day one and is naturally showing through in time, voting to give the NSA an additional 50 Million to secure against future leaker's was blackmail.

Then there is journalists being blackmailed to maintain silence of sensitive issues that the public needs to know, political dissidents in cruel regimes being exposed and jailed or killed, there is non-violent drug users being prosecuted and jailed as a result of NSA snooping and subsequent FBI 'parallel construction' to recreate the investigation trail.

All that stuff is not conspiracy theories any more, it is known to be occurring as a matter of course on a daily basis, its info that is in the public domain now owing to the numerous and various disparate articles from both the mainstream media such as the guardian and WSJ and the independent media that is taking over, pulled together, the picture is that the articles show its all been going on for over a decade to the point where FBI sources have even been quoted normalizing it as routine.

And not surprisingly,sweet bugger all terrorists are being caught planning to commit terrorist acts other than those that the FBI has created themselves via solicitation and then entrapment.

So you see, a blanked avoidance on JS because of the NSA ability to perform MITM attacks in an automated fashion en mass is a critical and mandatory action that the entire WWW community need to adopt ASAP.

I don't see it as a choice, but a fundamental necessity to curtail the NSA's abilities.

No time to proof read this now, gotta run.