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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. 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.

  2. 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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