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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. online, online, and online again by Paolo+DF · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I understand that all this online frenzy hit all major players in the IT field, but I still think that the Internet as it is now is not ready for this, and, in parallel, a lot of people don't feel ready for this.
    By the way, good luck to Mozilla; it is always good to have more than one player.

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  2. Re:so use encryption. by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've always hoped that Google would make this an option with gmail. Encrypt all data stored on their servers, add encryption on sending, and they'd have a wonder application. Not that Google (owner of Doubleclick) makes any money from user privacy, of course.

  3. Re:I dislike by McDutchie · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why? What would you rather see

    Yo.

  4. Re:Id like to see by One+Childish+N00b · · Score: 2, Interesting
    [I'd like to see] a way to save bookmarks, etc on *MY* server. (By "My server", I mean my personally owned and operated FreeBSD box I have colo'ed', not what the average moron might mean where they confuse 'server' with 'service provider' and use 'my server' to refer to their ISP)

    From TFA:

    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.
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  5. Re:so use encryption. by JustOK · · Score: 4, Interesting

    look and see the actual source code running, or look at what they say is the source code?

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