#NotTheOnion

#NotTheOnion

The iCepa project, using a Tor VPN for all iOS traffic, sounds interesting...

Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh

Yeah, that's a strange pic to use for this nice story. "When Mike Tigas first created the Onion Browser app for iOS in 2012, he never expected it to become popular. He was working as a newsroom Web developer at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, at the time, and wanted a Tor browser app for himself and his colleagues. Expecting little interest, he then put Onion Browser on the Apple App Store at just $0.99/£0.69, the lowest non-zero price that Apple allows.
[...]
[A] few weeks ago, he made the app free. Since then, its popularity has exploded, with thousands of downloads recorded every day. The results of the recent US presidential election might have had something to do with this decision, and its impressive results, Tigas told Ars.

"Given recent events, many believe it's more important than ever to exercise and support freedom of speech, privacy rights, and digital security," he wrote in a blog post. "I think now is as good a time as ever to make Onion Browser more accessible to everyone.
[...]
The biggest challenge to getting Tor working seamlessly on iOS, though, is the inability to run Tor as a system-wide service or daemon, something which is trivial to accomplish with most other operating systems, but unavailable to iOS app developers. To prevent misbehaving apps from getting up to their usual mischief, Apple sandboxes apps from each other, and from the underlying OS. This means you can't install Tor on iOS, let it run in the background, and route all your device traffic over Tor.

“In iOS the moment you leave an app, the app goes to sleep,” Tigas told Ars. “With Tor Browser Bundle or OrBot on Android, other apps can use the Tor in Tor Browser Bundle, other apps can use OrBot's connection on Android.”

In fact, to get Onion Browser to work, he has to compile Tor into the app itself—as does any other iOS app developer who wishes to offer a Tor connection. But that's about to change, thanks to iCepa."

Kwanghui Lim
http://arstechnica.com/security/2017/01/tor-onion-browser-ios-vpn/

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