Hello Tor and adjacent friends! On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 11:33 AM Tom Ritter <[email protected]> wrote:
> The first email referenced in-memory handling of cookies, so (with my Tor > hat, not my Mozilla hat) the concern would be that this will cause disk > writes. Tor Browser tries hard to avoid writing anything to disk, > especially not information that leaks the browsing history. If session > cookies (or non-session cookies treated as session cookies, or non-session > cookies that will be wiped at the end of the session) are being written to > disk (either before this change, or after it) it would be something we > should make Tor aware of so Tor can determine how to handle the situation. > (Which might be backing out the Mozilla patch in Tor Browser, or asking > Mozilla very nicely if they would reconsider.) I'm going to cc the Tor > Browser lead in on the email... > You might be interested in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675829, which allows to drop cookies on the floor entirely. I'm not sure that's appropriate for Tor -- perhaps you want a functioning cookie store that does not persist (at any point, save OS-level paging) -- but it might be valuable. Best, Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/CAMnWBR3CzH5YA7j5xoEpmcbeAKimoH%3DQFPppztFR-73L5GszDw%40mail.gmail.com.
