[tor-talk] Should DOM storage really be enabled by default in TorBrowser?

Georg Koppen gk at torproject.org
Fri Jun 20 08:15:26 UTC 2014


Aymeric Vitte:
> 
> Le 19/06/2014 20:51, Georg Koppen a écrit :
>> DOM Storage in Tor Browser does not save state to disc.
> 
> So it's there until you close your browser, that's far enough to track
> you and expose you.
> 
>>   And it is bound
>> to the URL bar domain (see design document).
> 
> That's not specific to DOM storage, it just follows the same origin
> policy like all W3C/WHATWG APIs

That holds for the one in a vanilla Firefox, yes. But not for the one we
ship. You should really read our design document and look at the commit
in my other mail.

Georg


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