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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by yoasif_ on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @08:28PM (#15077514)
They wouldn't know that you are visiting it, just that someone is visiting it.
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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by mirimir on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @11:52PM (#15078396)
How can they not know that I'm visiting it? I mean, the data is coming from my IP address. Sure, they may be dropping that data before storage. But what if it's intercepted?
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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by marumari on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:24AM (#15082212)
Connections to the Mozilla Telemetry server are done over HTTPS, so all an interceptor would know is that you are sending Telemetry and not what that Telemetry is.
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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by mirimir on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @01:01PM (#15083157)
OK, fair enough. Then an adversary inside Mozilla that can intercept the data. I mean, the NSA is inside Mozilla, right? It'd be foolish, in my opinion, to assume that they're not. Such a juicy target, and all.
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