> As far as I understand, the new sync weakens users' privacy but gives > the convenience of recovering bookmarks, history, preferences when > having forgotten the password and/or lost the recovery key. Is this a > fair statement ?
No. Recoverability was an early goal that was dropped from the product as currently released. Those needs will perhaps be met by a tailor-made backup solution at a later date. Sync 1.5 encrypts all of your data with a key derived from your password, and doesn't send your password over the wire. Resetting your password will render your data unrecoverable. As such, it's approximately as strong as Sync 1.1, so long as you use a good password when creating your account. _______________________________________________ Sync-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sync-dev
