rolling Firefox back to 2.x

[Knapp]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Nik N <niknot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Tony Arnold
>> <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> ...In the UK, a law was passed recently
>>> which allows law enforcement agencies to ask for encryption keys. You
>>> can be locked up for 5 years for refusing to divulge it! And that's in
>>> criminal cases; I'm not sure about civil cases.
>>
>> We know about it, but in this case we don't have a potential for some
>> "post-9-11" political and/or criminal action, but a rather straightforward
>> civil case (i. e., "its only money..." (tm:)). However, (check with your
>> favorite lawyer, either side of the pond) from the point of view of being
>> forced by law to divulge the encryption key, the person askey to produce
>> the key is in *weaker* position if the conflagration is civil (at best, they
>> could be the same). But as I stated before, for that reason and other,
>> in this case encryption is not considered a solution.
>>
>> Further examination of the threat model is not particularly productive;
>> I'd be very much obliged if someone with enough knowledge of FF3
>> (and, perhaps, FF2) could draw up that list of files, with specific
>> reference to what type of user data is kept in which. If there are any
>> non-obvious consequences of shreding such files after the end of each
>> session, we'd appreciated being made aware of those too.
>> (and no, there is no need to consider various add-ons).
>>
>> TIA, Nik N.
> do you care about cookies  ?
>

To make a better list, since you will not help us with what it is you
want to hide or from whom. Do you care about cookies? Website
passwords? Website visit history? Pictures? What is currenly on the
screen? Any screen buffers? Sounds? Keyboard buffers? Any other
buffers that are used by the computer like swap that could hold data
about what you have been up to? How about logs in the firewall? I
would think you do have one if you are being careful. IT is really
hard to help you when you don't give us any idea of what you really
need.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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