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Weave... Mozilla Is Trying To Be More Social

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the how-about-trying-to-leak-less dept.

Cassanova writes "Weave is the newest Mozilla Labs project. It allows the user to save browser settings on Mozilla servers (Favorites, sessions, passwords, etc.) and load them from anywhere. With this project, Mozilla is trying to be an online services provider, which is an important step. But can Mozilla labs get over the privacy issues?"

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  1. Useful enough? by headkase · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think it depends on personal preference. If it was opt-in and encrypted on your end before it was stored on Mozilla servers then they send you the (encrypted) data on local load of Firefox then you enter your secret password/phrase (or have it come out of the wallet or equivalent) to decrypt it, again, locally then there wouldn't be *any* privacy issues. And if you chose to use it it would definately come in handy for those instances where the OS unexpectedly borks itself on you and you have to reinstall. Then install firefox, enter your access code and at least that part it back to pre-bork settings.

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  2. Re:so use encryption. by Negatyfus · · Score: 5, Informative
    Actually, that's what they do now. From the article:

    • We currently encrypt on the client all data that gets placed on the server, with an encryption passphrase that only the user knows.
    • We kept the server intentionally dumb and standards-based, so that anyone can set up a server for themselves and/or their friends or company.
  3. If you haven't looked at Firefox 3... by FooAtWFU · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you haven't looked at Firefox 3 beta, there are some crazy new bookmark features, including "smart" bookmarks generated from frequently-visited sites and such. There's also bookmark tagging. This must fit in very nicely with the "weave" strategy.

    I'd be worried if I were del.icio.us. Not panicked, just worried. :)

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  4. host it yourself? by evilmoo · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the debugging logs, it seems like the information is just stored on a server via HTTPS+WebDAV. So if you control a web site (and you trust it more than you trust Mozilla), just change the Server Location (in Advanced Settings) from "https://services.mozilla.com/" to your own server. You will have to create a directory underneath that is the sha1sum of your account name, and it is up to you to set the permissions on the directory properly so that no one else can access it. Of course, this is all just an educated guess, but... "The rest is left as an exercise to the reader." :)

  5. Google Browser Sync by eht · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google Browser Sync

    And it's about as secure as your Google account already is. Whatever that means.

  6. Link by jpkunst · · Score: 4, Informative

    Link to the actual Mozilla Labs project page instead of to some blog: http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/introducing-weave/