[tor-talk] Downloading Firefox add-ons trough Tor. Safe?

hikki at Safe-mail.net hikki at Safe-mail.net
Tue Jul 12 10:31:34 UTC 2011


-------- Original Message --------
From: Justin Aplin <japlin at gmail.com>

> I honestly don't know, but if you're *that* paranoid about your downloads 
> being tampered with, navigating to https://addons.mozilla.org and looking 
> up the add-ons manually is only a few extra clicks.

I think it only checks the version with HTTPS, but download trough standard HTTP.
I'm wondering if Firefox 3.6 has some checking of checksums or anything, not 
because I'm paranoid but because I'm wondering if this is safe to do on a 
regular basis by updating add-ons trough tor.


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