Tor Browser 7.0.11 is released

Great reply, but I think more needs to be said about this:

> If you don't have such powerful adversaries then perhaps you don't need to worry about that.

I think that almost everyone is seriously underestimating their chances of being victimized by a "serious" attack by a well-funded attacker. For at least two reasons:

o because some attacks are easily converted into dragnet attacks (e.g. targeting all Tor users) and because some well-funded attackers (e.g. cyberespionage-as-a-service companies) are clearly happy to perform dragnet attacks on entire classes of internet users,

o more and more cyberespionage-as-a-service companies, often founded by former FBI, USSS, NSA/TAO agents with experience in creating malware, keep appearing, because more and more large corporations and nasty governments are demanding their services; among the most popular is "active defense" which means using social media to suss out potential adversaries, finding their IPs, and attacking their personal devices; increasingly, almost anyone who engages in political activity in a dozens of countries including "Western democracies" is likely to be surveilled by these companies acting on behalf of government or corporate clients; known victims include dozens of
+ fracking protest groups
+ oil pipeline protest groups
+ Black Lives Matter, Occupy, and other social justice movements
+ human righst groups (including the best known such as Amnesty and HRW)
+ foreclosure and mega-bank protest groups
+ net-neutrality supporters

For more information, please see

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/12/surveillance-firms-spied-…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/12/inside-the-secret-world-o…

https://theintercept.com/series/oil-and-water/

USPERs please note that at least one of the UK-based companies mentioned in The Guardian, TASK International, appears to have an active US branch (in FL).

There are many cyberespionage-as-a-service companies based in such places as USA, EU, India, South Asia, and Russia, but the best known are Gamma International (London and Munich), maker of FinFisher, Hacking Team (Italy), NSO Group (Israel) and Cyberbit (Israel, formed by merging NICE Ltd and portions of Elbit Systems, the Israeli spy/kill-drone maker; see the books on NSA by James Bamford for more background on NICE's business relations with the biggest US telecoms) .

My feeling is that pretty much anyone who is politically active needs to use Tor, strong end-to-end encryption, and other privacy/security-enhancing tools.

When will Tor Browser get Firefox 59? It is much faster than the current version, and it looks better!