[tor-bugs] #4107 [Tor Browser]: TBB Panic button

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#4107: TBB Panic button
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 Reporter:  phobos       |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:           
Component:  Tor Browser  |        Version:           
 Keywords:               |         Parent:           
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:           
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Comment(by rransom):

 Replying to [comment:1 mikeperry]:
 > This is not a bad idea, but where should the button be?
 >
 > It seems like the most user-accessible option would be a Torbutton menu
 option that says "Emergency Wipe.." But we'd need to confirm in case of
 accidental click.

 We would need a configuration option (off by default) to control whether
 that menu item is displayed/available.

 > Also, this is going to run into cross-platform difficulties. Windows for
 example really does not like you to be able to modify executables of
 running processes, so we'd have to fork off a new process, and then exit,
 and then notify the process to start wiping after exit. Then we'd have to
 figure out how to teach that process to wipe itself, which will be
 different on each platform..

 Does `CreateProcess` still allow starting a process from a PE image
 constructed in memory?

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