Fedora 15 Update: mozilla-https-everywhere-2.0.2-1.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-6532
2012-04-24 14:11:46
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Name        : mozilla-https-everywhere
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 2.0.2
Release     : 1.fc15
URL         : https://eff.org/https-everywhere
Summary     : HTTPS/HSTS enforcement extension for Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey
Description :
HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between
The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your
communications with a number of major websites.

Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS,
but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted
HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.

The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests
to these sites to HTTPS.

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Update Information:

Update to upstream 2.0.2. Should resolve bug 755328
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Apr 20 2012 Russell Golden <niveusluna at niveusluna.org> - 2.0.2-1
- Fix a weird wrong DOM-origin bug that occurred while redirects were in
  --  progress (this might have security implications, although we are unsure
  --  if it was exploitable).
  --  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5477
- By default, use https://google.co.cctld instead of
  --  encrypted.google.com
- Add an optional ruleset to use https://www.google.com
  -- instead of encrypted.google.com, too
- Ruleset fixes: Debian, Kohls, Malwarebytes, Yandex, Wikipedia, Mises.org,
  -- OpenDNS, Wizards of the Coast, Lenovo, Barnes and Noble
  --  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5509
  --  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5491
  --  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5303
- Stumble across more horrible security holes in the Verizon website:
  --  https://mail1.eff.org/pipermail/https-everywhere-rules/2012-February/001003.html
- Disable the Gentoo ruleset on non-CAcert platforms
- Disable buggy rulesets: IBM, Scribd, Wunderground :( :( :(
  --  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5344
  --  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5435
  --  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5630
* Wed Feb 29 2012 Russell Golden <niveusluna at niveusluna.org> - 2.0.1-1
- Sync to upstream 2.0.x branch
- Too many changes to all list here. None affect the end user experience.
    Being a Mozilla extension, it'll auto-update anyway.
* Wed Jan 11 2012 Russell Golden <niveusluna at niveusluna.org> - 1.2.2-1
- Google Cache is back!
- Fixes: Wikipedia, Identi.ca, Verizon, CCC.de, UserScripts, Yandex
- Improvements: EFF
- Disable broken: NSF.gov, WHO.int
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #755328 - can't access http://my.verizon.com with mozilla-https-everywhere enabled
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755328
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update mozilla-https-everywhere' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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