rolling Firefox back to 2.x

[Florian Diesch]

"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/9/3 Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net>:
>> sqlite is a well documented file format that can be easily accessed
>> from outside Firefox. If you  want to be sure that all sensitive data
>> is deleted from database it needs just a few lines of code (even in
>> shell code) to create a new database and copy the data you want to keep.
>>
>> The mork file format that was used by FF2 to store e.g. the history is
>> only poorly documented and AFAIK there are no libs to access it from
>> outside Firefox.
>>
> Mork was _plain_text_! 

But not human readable.

> You really have no idea what you are talking about.

There's no reason to get personal here.

> I understand your concern, really, I do. 

I guess you confused me with Nik here.

> Let's identify the
> problem and devise a solution. Do you want you browsing habits to be
> untraceable by forensic analysis of your hard drive? Write a shell
> script that shreds (not just deletes) your relevant files.

A problem may be that you don't want to delete *everything* but just
want to hide some activities and maybe the fact that you deleted some
information. That's why I find it useful to be able to modify the
files from outside the browser.


> Don't forget that network analysis will still reveal your browsing habits.

That's another problem. It doesn't matter if you e.g. just want to remove
private information on a computer you are sharing with other people.



   Florian
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