rolling Firefox back to 2.x
Florian Diesch
diesch at spamfence.net
Thu Sep 4 20:30:32 UTC 2008
"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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