Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way

Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by Ajedi32 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:23AM (#15072664)

> Any submission of data requires the transmission of an IP address

Not true. Tor has demonstrated that it's entirely possible to transmit data over the internet without revealing your IP address to the party you're transmitting to.

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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by quickben on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:29PM (#15075153)

At a heavy latency cost, and under dubious asumption that regular people control all exit nodes.

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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by Ajedi32 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:50PM (#15075324)

Actually no, it doesn't matter who controls the exit nodes as long as your only concern is keeping your IP private. (Exit nodes can indeed do bad things to unencrypted traffic, but that's irrelevant for this use case.)

Latency also doesn't matter here; this telemetry could take 5 minutes to reach its destination and it wouldn't matter, so long as the data is eventually received.

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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by quickben on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:04PM (#15075426)

Hmm, I've never thought of that. I like your idea.

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