Firefox video tag

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 01:56:05 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Erilenz<erilenz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Firefox 3.5 was released today. Has anyone investigated the new video tag that
> it supports with regards to whether or not it can cause leaks with Tor?

<video> and <audio> should have exactly the same attack surface as <img> has.

Thats one of the benefits that firefox's approach of building the
codecs internally rather than invoking an external media framework
(like safari does) should have.

I've been hoping very much that tor would not ultimately need to filter these…



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