https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-pocket/
Mozilla had previously made Pocket a mandatory part of Firefox and that really annoyed a lot of people because Pocket's business model was to spy on users for profit. This acquisition gives me hope that the spying will be eliminated, making Pocket - which is a genuinely useful tool - safe for all to use.
Pocket will join Mozilla's product portfolio as a new product line alongside the Firefox web browsers with a focus on promoting the discovery and accessibility of high quality web content. (Here's a link to their blog post on the acquisition). Pocket's core team and technology will also accelerate Mozilla's broader Context Graph initiative.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday February 28 2017, @05:50PM (1 child)
"Cloud" storage doesn't have to equal significant risk - that's what client-side encryption is for. So long as the encryption is secure, the unencrypted data never leaves your device, and you're the only one with the keys, it doesn't really mater who has access to the pseudo-random "noise" stored on the server.
Sync used to offer that. It was a bit cumbersome, and if you lost your key your data was gone - which as I recall was the reason Mozilla publicly gave for switching to a far less secure system (they have a copy of the keys) that was more user friendly and forgiving.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @03:49PM
Homomorphic encryption is 'encryption' which still gives you a lot of info by just looking at the crypto-text.