Re: [tor-talk] "recently-used.xbel" file in TBB directory, stores data on accessed, downloaded files

2017-09-18 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 01:34:49PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > Why is there a *"recently-used.xbel"*, file in my Tor Browser installation > directory - in path shown and  labeled as file TYPE: "XBEL bookmarks" > recording ACTUAL local file names, dates, times - they were accessed AND > some

[tor-talk] "recently-used.xbel" file in TBB directory, stores data on accessed, downloaded files

2017-09-18 Thread Joe Btfsplk
This involves *at least* Linux (Mint 18.1) Tor Browser 7.04 and 7.05, over at least a couple months. This seems like a huge privacy / anonymity issue. Why is there a *"recently-used.xbel"*, file in my Tor Browser installation directory - in path shown and  labeled as file TYPE: "XBEL

[tor-talk] New alpha release: 0.3.2.1-alpha (and new release series too!)

2017-09-18 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, everybody! After lots of work, we've got a tasty new alpha ready for you to find bugs in! Because it's an alpha, you should only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report them on trac.torproject.org. The source code is available from the usual place on

Re: [tor-talk] can't connect data bases and scientific journals

2017-09-18 Thread tor
On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 16:24 -0400, Benjamin Sullivan wrote: > I have breaking news that involves years of torture, abuse, cohercion, multiple attempts at my life by the CIA, CSIS, and the intelligence community. It involves a botched CIA operation in Russia, the theft of trillions of dollars

[tor-talk] Advisory: Stack disclosure in hidden services logs when SafeLogging disabled

2017-09-18 Thread Nick Mathewson
[TROVE-2017-008. CVE-2017-0380. Severity: medium] Hello! We have found a possible problem with the code that reports an error during the construction of an introduction point circuit. Because of this bug, it is possible that some hidden services will sometimes write sensitive