Re: [tor-talk] Request: Firefox extension/addon checking tutorial

2015-08-20 Thread Dave Warren
On 2015-08-20 21:27, Cain Ungothep wrote: Anybody care to make a peer-reviewed guide of how to check the >extensions for leaks, cheats and other dirty tricks? I would say use the source, Lara. It's problematic, of course, since it requires an expert not only on programming, networking, privacy

Re: [tor-talk] Request: Firefox extension/addon checking tutorial

2015-08-20 Thread Cain Ungothep
> Anybody care to make a peer-reviewed guide of how to check the > extensions for leaks, cheats and other dirty tricks? I would say use the source, Lara. It's problematic, of course, since it requires an expert not only on programming, networking, privacy and security but also on Mozilla's extens

[tor-talk] Request: Firefox extension/addon checking tutorial

2015-08-13 Thread spencerone
Lara: I have no idea how to do it. And I bet most of the readers of this list don't know it either. Yet, they can be pretty useful in some cases or downright dangerous in others. Take for example an adblocker. It can fingerprint you, but it can save time, bandwidth, battery time. When you have a

[tor-talk] Request: Firefox extension/addon checking tutorial

2015-08-13 Thread Lara
I have no idea how to do it. And I bet most of the readers of this list don't know it either. Yet, they can be pretty useful in some cases or downright dangerous in others. Take for example an adblocker. It can fingerprint you, but it can save time, bandwidth, battery time. When you have a short at