** Also affects: ubuntu-geoip (Ubuntu Artful)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: ubuntu-geoip (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: ubuntu-geoip (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: ubuntu-geoip (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist => Low
** Changed in: ubuntu-geoip (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: ubuntu-geoip (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: ubuntu-geoip (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
** Changed in: ubuntu-geoip (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: ubuntu-geoip (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: ubuntu-geoip (Ubuntu Artful)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: ubuntu-geoip (Ubuntu Artful)
Status: New => Triaged
** Description changed:
- geoip.ubuntu.com does not utilize HTTPS and leaks unencrypted over HTTP.
- This can potentially be utilized by nation state adversaries to
- compromise user privacy. This service is called multiple times per day
- by the OS in order to track users.
+ Impact
+ ------
+ It's better to use https where we can. There were concerns about location
leakage for users using a proxy (such as Tor).
+
+ Test Case
+ ---------
+
+ Regression Potential
+ --------------------
+ As long as Canonical maintains https://geoip.ubuntu.com, things should be
fine here. Minimal fix.
+
+
+ Original Bug Report
+ -------------------
+ geoip.ubuntu.com does not utilize HTTPS and leaks unencrypted over HTTP. This
can potentially be utilized by nation state adversaries to compromise user
privacy. This service is called multiple times per day by the OS in order to
track users.
$ nc -zv geoip.ubuntu.com 80
Connection to geoip.ubuntu.com 80 port [tcp/http] succeeded!
$ nc -zv -w 3 geoip.ubuntu.com 443
nc: connect to geoip.ubuntu.com port 443 (tcp) timed out
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