On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 01:49:13PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
* Firefox also has some "features" that are worrisome for
Fedora as a whole:
- The anti-malware and anti-phishing protection (enabled by default!)
sends a hash of every URL you visit to Google (yes, Google!).
As I understand it, this actually only sends hashes to Google when the first
32 bits of the hash match a list that is *pulled* to your system. And when
there is a match, only those 32 bits are sent and the list of full 256-bit
hashes with that prefix is returned.
It's still worrisome from a privacy perspective, but not quite as scary as
it would be to actually send a hash of every URL or to send full hashes.
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Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>