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Firefox Follows Chrome and Prepares to Block Insecure Downloads

posted by janrinok on Monday August 23 2021, @11:59PM   Printer-friendly

owl writes:

https://therecord.media/firefox-follows-chrome-and-prepares-to-block-insecure-downloads/

Mozilla developers are putting the finishing touches on a new feature that will block insecure file downloads in Firefox.

Called mixed content downloaded blocking, the feature works by blocking files downloads initiated from an encrypted HTTPS page but which actually take place via an unencrypted HTTP channel.

The idea behind this feature is to prevent Firefox users from getting misled by the URL bar and think they're downloading a file securely via HTTPS when, in reality, the file could be tampered with by third parties while in transit.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @09:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @09:31AM (#1170231)

    >Even Tor exposes the data to exit nodes.

    Not if you use a Tor .onion site. It's explained well enough on their site.

    Anyway, I don't know about other distros, but with Debian you can use Tor .onions and there are ZERO LEAKS:

    See this:

    https://onion.debian.org/ [debian.org]

    Now scroll to the very bottom and it will show .onion URLs which do NOT leak to exit nodes.