Geode: some more headaches for TorButton? :-P

Tom Hek tor at tomhek.nl
Thu Oct 9 11:11:37 UTC 2008


It's really scary when a random website can request your physical 
location imo.. I really hope you can disable that shit in the new 
version of Firefox when they include it..

Tom

Marco Bonetti wrote:
> Link bounced from /.: http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/10/introducing-geode/
> 
> Looks like the upcoming versions of firefox will ship the support for W3C
> geolocation specification: what's better for a tor attacker to ask
> directly to the browser where its user lives? ;-)
> I'm quite confident there'll be a way to (easily?) disable this feature
> but it's scaring stuff nevertheless.
> 
> ciao
> 



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