Tor Browser Bundle 8.0 (TBB) sends OS+kernel+TOTAL_PING_COUNT in update queries to Mozilla
- Tails 3.9, which ships with TBB 8.0, is also affected.
User report:[1]
https://blog.torproject.org/comment/277375#comment-277375Sanitize the add-on blocklist update URL
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16931related, old, closed ticket (unresolved):
TBB-Firefox sends OS+kernel in update queries to Mozilla
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6734[1]: "TBB-Firefox sends Linux kernel version in extensions blocklist update queries to Mozilla. 6 years old ticket closed https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6734 without fix this privacy issue.
From Ubuntu 18.04.1 LiveCD
/v1/blocklist/3/%7Bec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384%7D/60.2.0/Firefox/20180204030101/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/en-US/release/Linux 4.15.0-29-generic (GTK 3.22.30 libpulse 11.1.0)/default/default/1/1/new/""about:config
extensions.blocklist.url""Also it send TOTAL_PING_COUNT to tell mozilla how many days you use TBB."
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday September 26 2018, @04:59AM (2 children)
So we have a bit of drama in 1990 (ignoring that I wasn't listening to Madonna, the Pope, or TV at the time). What would be any different about the drama today? I don't see it playing out any different. Madonna still gives the concert with increased publicity. The Pope gets his say. And we still hear about it through the various news sources out there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @02:42AM (1 child)
Tor Browser sends update queries to Mozilla because things expect always on connectivity, khallow.
Things today expect always on connectivity, khallow.
We have always on connectivity today because of the internet, khallow.
We have the internet everywhere today because the web made the internet popular, khallow.
The World Wide Web didn't exist in 1990, khallow.
Get in your time machine and go back to 1990 and kill yourself, khallow.
The future doesn't want you, khallow.
Fuck off and die, khallow.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday September 28 2018, @04:30AM