Thanks for the reply. I have not tried to subscribe to any RSS or atom feeds, unless it is possible to do so accidentally in the course of ordinary internet browsing. I have never clicked any RSS or atom feed icons.
On 8/27/14 5:17 PM, isis wrote: > sureyourejok...@aim.com transcribed 1.6K bytes: >> To Whom it May Concern, >> >> I recently noticed that Tor Browser was leaking data about websites >> I visited in Tor to my hard drive. >> >> I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a 2010 model Macbook Pro 6,2. I am >> using TorBrowser Version 3.6.3. >> >> The data appears in the directory >> "/Users/Username/Library/PubSub/Feeds/", where "Username" represents my >> username. The directory contains xml files with random names and a .xml >> extension. They contain text and url's from websites which I have only >> visited using Tor. >> >> I use "No-Script" in Tor, and it is active by default. "No-Script" >> was active when I visited all of the websites, except for youtube, since >> the videos will not play while "No-Script" is active. >> >> I have installed the following add-ons to Tor: "Adblock Edge 2.1.4" >> and "Privacy Badger Firefox 0.2.1". >> >> I noticed these xml files a month ago, and moved the contents of >> /Users/Username/Library/PubSub/ to a separate location. Since then, I >> have watched the contents of this directory closely. >> >> Two days after I deleted the contents of "PubSub", a directory >> called "Database" appeared containing a file called "Database.sqlite3". >> This file seemed not to have any information about websites I visited. A >> while later, the "Feeds" directory appeared, but was empty. The "Feeds" >> directory remained empty for about two weeks. >> >> Yesterday, xml files appeared in the Feeds directory, which now >> contains 1.1 MB of files. >> >> Is this a security bug in Tor Browser? > > Have you ever subscribed to any live bookmarks or RSS/atom feeds using Tor > Browser? > > > -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
