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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. so use encryption. by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    anyone can get over the privacy issues, Mozilla just needs to encrypt the user's settings with a strong key and store the encrypted data to the server. Only the user can decrypt it (assuming he remembers his passphrase) and you're done.

    If you make this a non-optional feature then it can be touted as a big privacy win and people will surely be happier wit it. If you allow the passphrase to be stored locally then ease of use is solved too (obviously you'd still need to enter it if you used a browser not on your home PC, but that's ok).

    1. Re:so use encryption. by Nullav · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You're right. If only we could force them to release the source code or something, then we could just look.

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