[tor-bugs] #7188 [Firefox Patch Issues]: Using Mozilla's "Sync" feature unexpectedly syncs a lot of privacy settings (was: Using "Set up Sync" feature in TBB changes a lot of settings; easier fingerprinting; bad for anonymity)
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Fri Nov 30 02:24:37 UTC 2012
#7188: Using Mozilla's "Sync" feature unexpectedly syncs a lot of privacy settings
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Reporter: cypherpunks | Owner: mikeperry
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: Firefox Patch Issues | Version:
Keywords: tbb-usability | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Changes (by mikeperry):
* keywords: => tbb-usability
* priority: critical => major
* component: TorBrowserButton => Firefox Patch Issues
Comment:
I like the idea of supporting sync, because it's my understanding Mozilla
more or less did it right, and it's end-to-end encrypted to the client,
but I agree the pref change problem is bad.
On the other hand, perhaps people who use sync should create a separate
account for their TBB syncing?
Either way, this does sound like a usability issue. I suppose we could at
the very least inform people that they should only be syncing TBB
profiles. Perhaps there's some sort of profile version negotiation we
could make use of for this.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7188#comment:5>
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