[tor-talk] Torbutton-birdy version 0.0.2

Anne magarey annemag at adam.com.au
Sat May 26 02:52:54 UTC 2012


I, probably in ignorance, am unable to download the xpi. Please can 
someone describe how to for me?

cheers
Anne

On 26/05/12 11:47, Mike Perry wrote:
> Thus spake Jacob Appelbaum (jacob at appelbaum.net):
>
>> I'm pleased to say that Sukhbir, tanaq, and I are making progress on
>> Torbutton-birdy, the Torbutton like plugin for Thunderbird. Today marks
>> the second release with two important fixes:
> I say we just call it TorBirdy. Easier to type, and has a better ring to it
> I think.
>
> Hopefully, Torbutton will soon be entirely forgotten in favor of Tor
> Browser, anyways :).
>
>>    the auto-configuration wizard leaks, so we disabled it
>>    the timezone is now UTC and does not leak your actual timezone
>>
>> You may download the xpi here:
>> https://github.com/downloads/ioerror/torbutton-birdy/torbutton-birdy.xpi
>>
>> We had around 57 downloads for our first release, we'd love to see that
>> many users upgrade and send us feedback. We're really looking for
>> informational leaks but the most important kinds of leaks are proxy
>> bypass or other kinds of seriously harmful bugs.
>>
>> Here is our long running open bug about reviewing torbutton-birdy:
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5797
> I already mentioned this in the ticket, but might as well say it here
> too, in case people don't bother to click the link: Attachments can also
> cause proxy bypass when external apps are launched to open them, esp for
> doc and pdf attachments.
>
> It would be great if someone could test trying to open those
> attachments, especially after setting the prefs I mention in:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5797#comment:12.
>
> If the prefs don't cause a warning of some kind first, you might need to
> adapt that component I linked to in comment 11...
>
>
>
>
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