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2016-10-16 2:41 GMT+03:00 Miroslav Rovis <miro.rovis@××××××××××××××.hr>: |
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> On 161014-21:39+0300, Alexey Mishustin wrote: |
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>> Hello. |
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>> 2016-10-14 21:02 GMT+03:00 Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net>: |
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>> > Does anyone have a copy of the firefox 38.x ebuild around? |
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>> Attached. |
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>> > The latest update wiped it out, and now if I take the plunge to the |
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>> > current versions (i.e. at least 45.x) and I find then insufferable, |
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>> Agree! |
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> I may agree too, if some facts fall into place. Read on. |
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> I was wondering how safe is running Firefox 38.x at this day and age? |
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> If you look up: |
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> http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/mozilla-checks-if-firefox-is-affected-by-same-malware-vulnerability-as-tor/ |
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> ( continued and improved from: |
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> https://hackernoon.com/tor-browser-exposed-anti-privacy-implantation-at-mass-scale-bd68e9eb1e95#.ctpp9u5fl ) |
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> and especially the Jacob Appelbaum's: |
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> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/detecting-certificate-authority-compromises-and-web-browser-collusion |
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> So if you recall (some of the readers must have read those) the issues |
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> there, and how badly Firefox was exposed and pretty often, then my query |
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> is how do you assess how secure Firefox 38.x that you install might be? |
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> Regards! |
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Yeah, it's an usual dilemma: old version is vulnerable, new version sucks. |
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From my point of view, if there's a MITM, then Firefox is not the only problem. |
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Besides ruining the cookies management (should one install an addon |
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now? like Cookies Manager+?), new versions of Firefox succeeded to |
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hang all the OS, when I was working with Google maps (never been with |
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older versions). |
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Regards, |
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Alex |
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