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Add a way to disable Tor via admin policy #454

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bbondy opened this issue Jun 29, 2018 · 21 comments · Fixed by brave/brave-core#3692
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Add a way to disable Tor via admin policy #454

bbondy opened this issue Jun 29, 2018 · 21 comments · Fixed by brave/brave-core#3692

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@bbondy
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bbondy commented Jun 29, 2018

Test plan

  1. Fresh install of Brave (clean profile)
  2. Open regedit
  3. For 64 bit, create the following keys:
    BraveSoftware\Brave
    under the existing key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\
    (for 32 bit, you can edit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\)
  4. Create a DWORD value at this path called TorDisabled and set the value as 1
  5. Launch Brave
  6. Verify Managed by your organization shows as the last item under the hamburger menu
  7. If you click Managed by your organization, it should take you to brave://management
  8. Verify no Tor options are shown in the UI
  9. Exit Brave
  10. Open the profile directory (%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data)and look for the Tor executable (usually under a path like cpoalefficncklhjfpglfiplenlpccdb\1.0.6). It should NOT be there.

Original issue description

https://twitter.com/dlepi/status/1012732537196765189

Via a method like these work:
https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3

@bbondy bbondy added this to the Backlog milestone Jun 29, 2018
@billrob
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billrob commented Jul 5, 2018

I had to have my team uninstall this browser from our company's computers because of TOR.

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bbondy commented Sep 9, 2018

Thanks for letting us know @billrob. Note that it won't run without opt-in, but I know we need a way to completely disable it from even being installed, this will cover it.

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billrob commented Oct 19, 2018

@bbondy Security folks are at it again at my employer. Since it has the option to private browse with TOR, they won't have any of it. Boo.

@tildelowengrimm tildelowengrimm added the priority/P5 Not scheduled. Don't anticipate work on this any time soon. label Oct 30, 2018
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Jacalz commented Nov 21, 2018

I have this issue too, our School doesn't allow the use of VPN, proxys or Tor on our computers. Since it is opt in we can still use the browser if we want, but the use of Tor would be conflicting with their policy. Being able to completely remove it would be a great thing!

@rebron rebron modified the milestone: 1.x Backlog Feb 7, 2019
@Thymester
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+1

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@BrendanEich

You’re losing users because your team is failing to provide an option to disable Tor. Tor is a serious security concern.

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