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

[Nathan of Guardian]

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

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

> The author's name is Omar Mody and their previous work includes Fart
> Call[2] and an English interpretation of the Holy Quran[3]. Curious.

Woah... such cred!

> Obviously there is no way to do any code review of the Tor
> implementation since it's a commercial app in the official iTunes app
> store. Anyone else using this on the daily?

Yeah, seems like you want to avoid it, and switch to good ol' OB!