Spyware inserted into "BlockSite" add-on.

2013-08-10 Thread John Nagle
Worse, they offer development tools for building add-ons which build in their "tracking" features. So there may be Mozilla add-ons with their tracking code that aren't labelled as being from "wips.com". Once the tracking code has been identified, all add-ons need to be ch

Re: Proposal: tougher CA standards in "private browsing" mode.

2013-04-04 Thread John Nagle
ng bars like that are seen on multi-level secure systems in some DoD environments. (They say things like "SECRET NOFORN" in that environment.) There's no way to turn them off. John Nagle "Work for mankind, not for the man" - Mozil

Proposal: tougher CA standards in "private browsing" mode.

2013-03-24 Thread John Nagle
irewall is listening in, the user is informed. This is consistent with Mozilla's "work for mankind, not the man" policy. John Nagle ___ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security

Re: IDN TLD whitelist, and .com

2012-10-11 Thread John Nagle
uot; and ".net". If someone is mounting an attack, it would probably be in those TLDs. If Network Solutions wants an exception for "grandfathered" domain names, let them publish a list of those domains for public comment. Is the problem big enough to worry about?

Re: IDN TLD whitelist, and .com

2012-07-21 Thread John Nagle
entation effort, there don't seem to be all that many IDN domains. John Nagle ___ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security

Re: New MITM cert incident - Cyberoam

2012-07-05 Thread John Nagle
mmunity members work for companies with that kind of policy. Any bypass mechanism should result in a user-visible display. Perhaps a notification like "Your access to this page is being observed by " John Nagle ___

New MITM cert incident - Cyberoam

2012-07-04 Thread John Nagle
-3372 They're not a CA trusted by Mozilla, apparently. John Nagle ___ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security

Re: Proposed Feature: Application Reputation system

2012-06-29 Thread John Nagle
On 6/29/2012 5:44 PM, Devdatta Akhawe wrote: If we proxy the requests, I would recommend opt out (on by default). Why not try implementing this as an add-on and see if anybody uses it? John Nagle ___ dev-security

Re: Implications of new TLDs

2012-06-21 Thread John Nagle
On 6/21/2012 3:40 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I don't see why multiple standard queries has any bearing, dns queries are cheap. No-find TLD queries are surprisingly slow. Try a few. John Nagle ___ dev-sec

Re: Implications of new TLDs

2012-06-20 Thread John Nagle
x27;193.223.78.213', 80)] TO -- [('216.74.32.107', 80)] UZ -- [('91.212.89.8', 80)] VI -- [('193.0.0.198', 80)] WS -- [('64.70.19.33', 80)] XN--O3CW4H -- [('203.146.249.130', 80)] (ไทย, the Thai TLD.) About half of those IP addresses have a live web

Re: Implications of new TLDs

2012-06-18 Thread John Nagle
nk. Google Chrome has a different (and probably better) system for resolving this ambiguity - it asks you which one you want. John Nagle ___ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security

Re: Implications of new TLDs

2012-06-15 Thread John Nagle
On 6/15/2012 4:36 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: On 14/06/12 19:55, John Nagle wrote: Top-level A records are already allowed. Try http://ai/ The CCTLDs have a different arrangement with ICANN from the GTLDs. ICANN has a lot less control over them. Can you find a GTLD where there is a

Re: Implications of new TLDs

2012-06-14 Thread John Nagle
would generate? If every single-word search query goes out as a DNS query, each new word makes it to the root servers as a TLD query before generating an NXDOMAIN reply. Will this DDOS the DNS root servers? John

Re: Implications of new TLDs

2012-06-14 Thread John Nagle
people are expecting that, or can you point to the place in the ICANN guidelines about these TLDs where top-level A records are allowed? Top-level A records are already allowed. Try http://ai/ John Nagle _

Re: Implications of new TLDs

2012-06-13 Thread John Nagle
On 6/6/2012 8:13 AM, Johnathan Nightingale wrote: On Jun 6, 2012, at 2:32 AM, John Nagle wrote: On 6/5/2012 9:34 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: On 04/06/12 19:10, John Nagle wrote: Single-word domain names are about to become a common form of URL. Until now, this was mostly a curiosity

Re: Proposed Feature: Application Reputation system

2012-06-10 Thread John Nagle
27;s quite common, though, for a big name to be on the list for a day or two. For example, "flickr.com" and "tinyurl.com" were on the list for a few hours recently. "charter.com" was on for a week. Is Mozilla willing to pull a mzjor site from a whitelis

Re: Proposed Feature: Application Reputation system

2012-06-08 Thread John Nagle
or. Whitelisting has problems of its own. At one point, the Google Toolbar was widely considered spyware. Google would be unlikely to blacklist their own product. John Nagle ___ dev-security maili

Re: Implications of new TLDs

2012-06-05 Thread John Nagle
On 6/5/2012 9:34 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: On 04/06/12 19:10, John Nagle wrote: Single-word domain names are about to become a common form of URL. IMO, Mozilla should not be in favour of this type of word hijacking. "www.nike", fine. Bare "nike", no. But then, maybe it&#x

Re: Implications of new TLDs

2012-06-04 Thread John Nagle
On 6/4/2012 12:34 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: On 2012-06-04 12:29 PM, John Nagle wrote: The main change is that, for today's TLDs, few bare TLDs resolve to an IP address. Corporate TLDs ("facebook", "pepsi", etc.) probably will resolve to an IP address. Are you aware o

Re: Implications of new TLDs

2012-06-04 Thread John Nagle
On 6/4/2012 12:11 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 6/4/12 2:10 PM, John Nagle wrote: Is DNS always preferred over search? At the moment, yes. Otherwise lots of intranet stuff that uses search domains would fail too. OK, that's good enough for now. The main change is that, for to

Implications of new TLDs

2012-06-04 Thread John Nagle
gest" use DNS information? John Nagle ___ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security

Re: Why isn't this cert recognized by Mozilla as an EV cert?

2012-04-26 Thread John Nagle
On 4/26/2012 1:07 PM, alex.mayo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:21:14 PM UTC-5, ianG wrote: On 20/04/12 06:13 AM, Wan-Teh Chang wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:39 PM, John Nagle wrote: Check out https://easyabc.95599.cn/commbank/netBank/zh_CN/CommLogin.asp which is the

Why isn't this cert recognized by Mozilla as an EV cert?

2012-04-19 Thread John Nagle
Check out https://easyabc.95599.cn/commbank/netBank/zh_CN/CommLogin.aspx which is the Agricultural Bank of China. They have an EV cert signed by Mozilla, but Mozilla isn't displaying the correct info. John Nagle Site

Poorly worded error message for cert for wrong site.

2012-04-18 Thread John Nagle
have never seen this warning before for this site. John Nagle SiteTruth ___ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security

Re: Fixing SSL quickly (not), or why certs need business identity data.

2012-03-29 Thread John Nagle
On 3/29/2012 6:13 PM, ianG wrote: On 30/03/12 02:38 AM, John Nagle wrote: On 3/29/2012 3:42 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:29:29 -0700 John Nagle wrote: Anything that takes a credit card should have at least "organization validated". Can you actually think o

Re: Fixing SSL quickly (not), or why certs need business identity data.

2012-03-29 Thread John Nagle
On 3/29/2012 3:42 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:29:29 -0700 John Nagle wrote: Anything that takes a credit card should have at least "organization validated". Can you actually think of a reason for that? Anonymous online businesses are illegal. It&#x

Re: Receipt Generation Service

2012-03-28 Thread John Nagle
per signing, they're far too expensive for blogs. John Nagle SiteTruth ___ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security

Re: Restricting which CAs can issue certs for which hostnames

2012-03-27 Thread John Nagle
n should be restricted to that domain, and that needs to be enforced. There's a discussion on sub-CA policy going on now over on mozilla.dev.security.policy. Check that out. John Nagle

Re: Fixing SSL quickly

2012-03-27 Thread John Nagle
ion now, in SiteTruth's browser add-ons. We look up the business specified in the cert, and check out its identity, location and financials. We're looking forward to tightening up the rules after July 12. John Nagle