rolling Firefox back to 2.x

[Florian Diesch]

"Nik N" <niknot at gmail.com> wrote:

>>From someone who did not monitor the network beforehand, has the
> physical possession of the computer some time (days, at least many
> hours) after it was last powered down (nobody is busting doors here),
> and might be inclined to spend tens of thousands of dollars to weasel
> out of a contract worth a couple of millions; and would succeed if he
> can make a claim about sites visited using a browser on that computer,
> that would stand in the court of law. If there is any encrypted data on
> that computer, he could get a civil 'duces tecum'  decryption key
> subpoena; and if the key was not produced, he would likely win the
> case by default.

Use a Firefox profile on a RAM disk or something similar while doing
sensitive research.  If you don't have root privileges look for a FUSE
based file system that doesn't write to your hard disk.

If possible switch off swap space.


   Florian
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