[tor-talk] Observation re gmail/google cookies

2014-05-15 Thread grarpamp
Is used to be such that only the mail.google.com:GX cookie was required to access webgmail (even if it added a number of other cookies post that access, they could be reasonably narrowed down and blocked to just mail.google.com, if I recall). Now within the past many months that has changed to incl

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox, Adobe, and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Hi Gerardus, I don't really know, I am not involved in this project at all. Also, I am not a believer in DRM – no matter how sophisticated, I am pretty sure that a graphics driver can easily defeat it, and if such drivers do not exist yet, I am sure that they will. Perhaps it can also be def

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox, Adobe, and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread Gerardus Hendricks
Hi David, I can sympathize with the position that Mozilla has taken concerning W3C EME. I'm left with a related question though: Suppose that the (necessarily closed-source) DRM component is completely sandboxed and separated from the rest of the code, so that its only inputs are the encrypt

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox, Adobe, and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread anonazombie
Some information to read on the subject: http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mozilla-and-adobe-to-support-digital-restrictions-management ..."Although Mozilla will not directly ship Adobe's proprietary DRM plugin, it will, as an official feature, encourage Firefox users to ins

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox, Adobe, and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 01:08:56PM -0500, p...@crable.us wrote: I just received a message from the Free Software Foundation advising me that Mozilla has climbed in bed with Adobe Corporation and will implement digital rights management, DRM, in FireFox. Until now they had not supported DRM. It

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox, Adobe, and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Hi Paul, It's actually more complicated than this. Since pretty much everyone at Mozilla hates DRM, we took the least evil option that did not involve project suicide. Adobe will implement a sandboxed proprietary black box plug-in for decoding DRM-ed data. We will provide an API to make it w

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox, Adobe, and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread Georg Koppen
p...@crable.us: > The source code for FireFox is available free and so the DRM > code could be striped out before making it the TOR browser. I'd suggest starting with: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/ (Hint: Firefox is staying free) Georg signature.

[tor-talk] Firefox, Adobe, and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread paul
I just received a message from the Free Software Foundation advising me that Mozilla has climbed in bed with Adobe Corporation and will implement digital rights management, DRM, in FireFox. Until now they had not supported DRM. They claim to take this act to preserve market share, but it would no

Re: [tor-talk] Upcoming stable release: 0.2.4.22. Please test?

2014-05-15 Thread anonym
15/05/14 02:28, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:55 PM, anonym wrote: >> 14/05/14 21:46, Nick Mathewson wrote: >>> Hi, all! >>> >>> We're going to be releasing Tor 0.2.4.22 soon. I have a candidate >>> source bundle at [...] >> >> Unless there's a lot of unexpected problems, am I

Re: [tor-talk] darkweb-everywhere - was: Using HTTPS Everywhere to redirect to .onion

2014-05-15 Thread Mirimir
On 05/14/2014 11:46 PM, "I" wrote: > Just imagine what anyone from Scandinavia or Europe might interpret it as > rather than just North Americans who have predilection for dramatic language. > > Do you really have to excite yourself? I take it that you've never attended metal concerts in Scandin