Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 07:19, Tim  wrote:
>> Is that for your entire network, or just one computer? If it's just
>> for the one machine, you might find it easier to maintain a simple
>> hosts file.
>
> You might want to read my first paragraph, again...
>
> Though, even for just one computer, it offers something that can't be
> done with the hosts file:  Wildcarding.
>
> If I wanted to blacklist an entire domain, and all of its subdomains, I
> can't do that in the hosts file, I have to list each FQDN that I want to
> block.
>

I see. Nice.


> It also offers something else.  With the hosts file, you can only
> associate a different IP with the domain name (than the real IP).  With
> my solution you can offer a "no answer," essentially an "it does not
> exist" response.  Which is a faster kill, avoiding any waiting for
> responses.  And doesn't cause problems when you do have a webserver
> running on the localhost.
>

Clever, especially as I do have a server on localhost. Thanks.

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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Tim
Tim:
>> I do something similar with my DNS server.  I have a dead zone file,
>> which produces instant fails to any queries to any domain names I
>> associate it with.  It gives me neat, central, management of all
>> computers on the LAN.

Dotan Cohen:
> Is that for your entire network, or just one computer? If it's just
> for the one machine, you might find it easier to maintain a simple
> hosts file.

You might want to read my first paragraph, again...

Though, even for just one computer, it offers something that can't be
done with the hosts file:  Wildcarding.

If I wanted to blacklist an entire domain, and all of its subdomains, I
can't do that in the hosts file, I have to list each FQDN that I want to
block.

It also offers something else.  With the hosts file, you can only
associate a different IP with the domain name (than the real IP).  With
my solution you can offer a "no answer," essentially an "it does not
exist" response.  Which is a faster kill, avoiding any waiting for
responses.  And doesn't cause problems when you do have a webserver
running on the localhost.

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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 17:05, Tim  wrote:
> I do something similar with my DNS server.  I have a dead zone file,
> which produces instant fails to any queries to any domain names I
> associate it with.  It gives me neat, central, management of all
> computers on the LAN.  My named.conf file also has these other
> google-related domains:
>
> zone "googlesyndication.com"    { type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
> zone "googleservices.com"       { type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
> zone "googleadservices.com"     { type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
> zone "google-analytics.com"     { type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
>
> And this is the dead.zone file:
>
> $TTL 86400
> @       IN      SOA     ns.localdomain.  hostmaster.mail.localdomain. (
>                        200 ; serial
>                        28800 ; refresh
>                        7200 ; retry
>                        604800 ; expire
>                        86400 ; ttl
>                        )
>
>
>        IN      NS      ns.localdomain.
>
> Essentially, it's a wildcard "no answer" for the domain, and any
> subdomain.
>
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Is that for your entire network, or just one computer? If it's just
for the one machine, you might find it easier to maintain a simple
hosts file.

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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 16:38, Alan Cox  wrote:
>> Going back to my first example, simply blocking doubleclick.com cookies
>> wouldn't be enough to stop them tracking you.  The mere loading of their
>> graphics has counted you, and put your IP into their database to track
>> for the rest of your browsing session.  You need to stop loading their
>> graphics, in the first place.
>
> Likewise google's analysis stuff
>
> The internet works better in my experience when www.google-analytics.com
> (and ssl.google-analytics.com) get blocked at firewall level or stuck
> in /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1
>

Works better in what sense? Faster page load times?


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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Joe Wulf
Awesome solution.  Thank you for helping to improve the world!




- Original Message 
> From: Tim 
> To: Community support for Fedora users 
> Sent: Thu, May 19, 2011 10:05:27 AM
> Subject: Re: security in firefox4
> 
> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:38 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The internet works  better in my experience when
> > www.google-analytics.com
> > (and ssl.google-analytics.com) get blocked  at firewall level or stuck
> > in /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1
> 
> I do  something similar with my DNS server.  I have a dead zone file,
> which  produces instant fails to any queries to any domain names I
> associate it  with.  It gives me neat, central, management of all
> computers on the  LAN.  My named.conf file also has these other
> google-related  domains:
> 
> zone "googlesyndication.com"{  type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
> zone "googleservices.com"   {  type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
> zone "googleadservices.com" {  type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
> zone "google-analytics.com" {  type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
> 
> And this is the dead.zone  file:
> 
> $TTL 86400
> @   IN   SOA ns.localdomain.  hostmaster.mail.localdomain. (
>  200  ; serial
>  28800 ; refresh
>  7200 ; retry
>  604800 ;  expire 
>  86400 ; ttl
>  )
> 
> 
>  IN  NS   ns.localdomain.
> 
> Essentially, it's a wildcard "no answer" for the domain,  and any
> subdomain.
> 
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> 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:38 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> The internet works better in my experience when
> www.google-analytics.com
> (and ssl.google-analytics.com) get blocked at firewall level or stuck
> in /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1

I do something similar with my DNS server.  I have a dead zone file,
which produces instant fails to any queries to any domain names I
associate it with.  It gives me neat, central, management of all
computers on the LAN.  My named.conf file also has these other
google-related domains:

zone "googlesyndication.com"{ type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
zone "googleservices.com"   { type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
zone "googleadservices.com" { type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
zone "google-analytics.com" { type master; file  "dead.zone"; };

And this is the dead.zone file:

$TTL 86400
@   IN  SOA ns.localdomain.  hostmaster.mail.localdomain. (
200 ; serial
28800 ; refresh
7200 ; retry
604800 ; expire 
86400 ; ttl
)


IN  NS  ns.localdomain.

Essentially, it's a wildcard "no answer" for the domain, and any
subdomain.

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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Alan Cox
> Going back to my first example, simply blocking doubleclick.com cookies
> wouldn't be enough to stop them tracking you.  The mere loading of their
> graphics has counted you, and put your IP into their database to track
> for the rest of your browsing session.  You need to stop loading their
> graphics, in the first place.

Likewise google's analysis stuff

The internet works better in my experience when www.google-analytics.com
(and ssl.google-analytics.com) get blocked at firewall level or stuck
in /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1

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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 17:50 +0900, Misha Shnurapet wrote:
> * blocked third-party cookies while online (may prevent advertisement
> networks from carrying information between sites)

I don't think it quite does what people hope.  Well, not any more.

Third party cookies are cookies that don't belong to the content being
loaded.  Most tracking cookies are associated with graphics, rather than
the page, but either can be used for tracking you.  And as far as those
graphics are concerned, ownership of their cookies is *NOT* the page
you're looking at, but the content going into the page.

e.g. As a theoretical example, you might load www.example.com, its page
includes images from doubleclick.com, and these images have cookies.  If
those images include cookies for doubleclick.com, they're not
third-party, so they're not blocked.  But if those images included
cookies to some other domain, such as google.com, then they would be
third party (or vice versa - images from google, with cookies for
doubleclick).  So, if you want to block doubleclick.com cookies, for
instance, you need to directly blacklist them.

This has been my experience, at least.

I think most people's ideas about third-party cookies, and apparently
the browser authors, would be along these lines:

You'd browse www.example.com, it'd include pages and graphics from
itself, but the tracking cookies would be for someone like
doubleclick.com (this *is* a third party).

Going back to my first example, simply blocking doubleclick.com cookies
wouldn't be enough to stop them tracking you.  The mere loading of their
graphics has counted you, and put your IP into their database to track
for the rest of your browsing session.  You need to stop loading their
graphics, in the first place.

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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Tim
Misha Shnurapet:
>> * used Flash Block to only watch the clips I intend to watch (may
>> prevent click-jacking)

Dotan Cohen:
> This is the single best performance enhancement that I've ever done to
> a computer, it works better than a memory upgrade. Everyone for whom
> I've installed Flashblock has thanked me. Flash really is the bane of
> the internet. Note that the first thing that I do after installing
> Flashblock is browse to Youtube and click "Allow Flash From This
> Site".

I used to always leave Flash uninstalled, until I regularly had to deal
with sites relying on it, because it was that huge pain.  And I agree,
Flashblock has been about the best thing for dealing with it, and about
the only plugin that I'll routinely install.

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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
2011/5/19 Misha Shnurapet :
> Here's what I did for privacy in Firefox:
> * used the BetterPrivacy plugin to delete Flash cookies on exit
> * set the browser to delete *regular* cookies on exit

You can use the CookieCuller extension to keep the cookies that you
want, such as logins.


> * blocked third-party cookies while online (may prevent advertisement 
> networks from carrying information between sites)

This is wise.


> * used Ghostery plugin to block scripts from the major known tracking websites

Nice. I've used Ghostery in the past to let me know about scripts, but
I never knew about it's blocking feature.


> * used Flash Block to only watch the clips I intend to watch (may prevent 
> click-jacking)
>

This is the single best performance enhancement that I've ever done to
a computer, it works better than a memory upgrade. Everyone for whom
I've installed Flashblock has thanked me. Flash really is the bane of
the internet. Note that the first thing that I do after installing
Flashblock is browse to Youtube and click "Allow Flash From This
Site".


> * additionally, AdBlock Plus (along with the Element Hiding Helper) can be 
> used to block counters, ads designed to show up in your face and other crap 
> like pocker games, etc.
>
> The "Do Not Track Me" option is a gag.
>
 100% correct.


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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Misha Shnurapet
19.05.2011, 17:07, "Dotan Cohen" :
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 23:55, Aaron Konstam ; wrote:
>
>>  Thanks that worked to stop tracking. But I am still confused by the
>>  official directions to use an option under tools?
>
> On Windows the Preferences menu item in under Tools, on Linux it is
> under Edit. I have no idea why that is, probably historical.
>
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Here's what I did for privacy in Firefox:
* used the BetterPrivacy plugin to delete Flash cookies on exit
* set the browser to delete *regular* cookies on exit
* blocked third-party cookies while online (may prevent advertisement networks 
from carrying information between sites)
* used Ghostery plugin to block scripts from the major known tracking websites
* used Flash Block to only watch the clips I intend to watch (may prevent 
click-jacking)

* additionally, AdBlock Plus (along with the Element Hiding Helper) can be used 
to block counters, ads designed to show up in your face and other crap like 
pocker games, etc.

The "Do Not Track Me" option is a gag.

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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 23:55, Aaron Konstam  wrote:
> Thanks that worked to stop tracking. But I am still confused by the
> official directions to use an option under tools?
>

On Windows the Preferences menu item in under Tools, on Linux it is
under Edit. I have no idea why that is, probably historical.

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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-18 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:02:54PM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
> Also delete your flash cookies and turn them off ...

Yes.

> flash P2P as well for good measure.

Couldn't hurt.

>   Many of the 'bad guys' have switched primarily to flash cookies now
> ... so deleting the regular cookies wont really help.

Well, yeah, it'll help--just not as much as it used to.

If you use Firefox, you can get the "BetterPrivacy" addon.  It'll zap flash
cookies and DOM objects when you exit.

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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/18/2011 09:49 PM, bruce wrote:

> 
> no guarantee that won't happen..
> 
> if you really don't want to be tracked. clean out your cookies
> regularly, as well as change your dynamic ip address every couple of
> hours...
> 
> there you go!
> 

  Also delete your flash cookies and turn them off - and also turn off
flash P2P as well for good measure.

  Many of the 'bad guys' have switched primarily to flash cookies now
... so deleting the regular cookies wont really help.

  Click here to start fixing your flash:


http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html

   There are 6 tabs to go thru to clean and turn thinks off.
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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-18 Thread bruce
umm.. no.

it doesn't stop tracking, unless the website you're looking at has
agreed to not track you!!

the tracking thing is purely voluntary and happens on the
serverside/ad network side...

all the tracking check does is kind of ask the site to now track you!!

no guarantee that won't happen..

if you really don't want to be tracked. clean out your cookies
regularly, as well as change your dynamic ip address every couple of
hours...

there you go!


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Aaron Konstam  wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 07:02 -0700, bruce wrote:
>> check under the edit/preferences/advanced/general... in the 2nd batch
>> of checkboxes
>>
> Thanks that worked to stop tracking. But I am still confused by the
> official directions to use an option under tools?
>
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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-18 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 07:02 -0700, bruce wrote:
> check under the edit/preferences/advanced/general... in the 2nd batch
> of checkboxes
> 
Thanks that worked to stop tracking. But I am still confused by the
official directions to use an option under tools?

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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-18 Thread Bryce Hardy
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Aaron Konstam  wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 20:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:38 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>> > On 17 May 2011 21:35, Aaron Konstam  wrote:
>> > > I read somewhere that Firefox 4 contains a feature that prevents
>> > > websites from grabbing your local information. If that is true could
>> > > some on tell me how to activate this feature in Firefox 4
>> >
>> > If you mean "Do Not Track", then that would be this:
>> >
>> > Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Tell web sites I do not
>> > want to be tracked.
>> >
>> > http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/767746
>>
>> Note that it doesn't *prevent* anything. Its function is purely
>> advisory. Compliance depends on the web site admin.
>>
>> poc
>>
>
> That is what I wanted but neither the Tools tab on the menu bar not the
> tools tab on the Community tool Bar have an option called options.
> This is Firefox 4.0.1

It's in Preferences > Advanced > Browsing > Tell Websites I Do Not
Want To Be Tracked

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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-18 Thread bruce
check under the edit/preferences/advanced/general... in the 2nd batch
of checkboxes


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Aaron Konstam  wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 20:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:38 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>> > On 17 May 2011 21:35, Aaron Konstam  wrote:
>> > > I read somewhere that Firefox 4 contains a feature that prevents
>> > > websites from grabbing your local information. If that is true could
>> > > some on tell me how to activate this feature in Firefox 4
>> >
>> > If you mean "Do Not Track", then that would be this:
>> >
>> > Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Tell web sites I do not
>> > want to be tracked.
>> >
>> > http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/767746
>>
>> Note that it doesn't *prevent* anything. Its function is purely
>> advisory. Compliance depends on the web site admin.
>>
>> poc
>>
>
> That is what I wanted but neither the Tools tab on the menu bar not the
> tools tab on the Community tool Bar have an option called options.
> This is Firefox 4.0.1
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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-18 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 20:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:38 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> > On 17 May 2011 21:35, Aaron Konstam  wrote:
> > > I read somewhere that Firefox 4 contains a feature that prevents
> > > websites from grabbing your local information. If that is true could
> > > some on tell me how to activate this feature in Firefox 4
> > 
> > If you mean "Do Not Track", then that would be this:
> > 
> > Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Tell web sites I do not
> > want to be tracked.
> > 
> > http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/767746
> 
> Note that it doesn't *prevent* anything. Its function is purely
> advisory. Compliance depends on the web site admin.
> 
> poc
> 

That is what I wanted but neither the Tools tab on the menu bar not the
tools tab on the Community tool Bar have an option called options.
This is Firefox 4.0.1
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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:38 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> On 17 May 2011 21:35, Aaron Konstam  wrote:
> > I read somewhere that Firefox 4 contains a feature that prevents
> > websites from grabbing your local information. If that is true could
> > some on tell me how to activate this feature in Firefox 4
> 
> If you mean "Do Not Track", then that would be this:
> 
> Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Tell web sites I do not
> want to be tracked.
> 
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/767746

Note that it doesn't *prevent* anything. Its function is purely
advisory. Compliance depends on the web site admin.

poc

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Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-17 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 17 May 2011 21:35, Aaron Konstam  wrote:
> I read somewhere that Firefox 4 contains a feature that prevents
> websites from grabbing your local information. If that is true could
> some on tell me how to activate this feature in Firefox 4

If you mean "Do Not Track", then that would be this:

Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Tell web sites I do not
want to be tracked.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/767746

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security in firefox4

2011-05-17 Thread Aaron Konstam
I read somewhere that Firefox 4 contains a feature that prevents
websites from grabbing your local information. If that is true could
some on tell me how to activate this feature in Firefox 4
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