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How?
Inspect network traffic. Or more arduously, analyze the JS.
Network traffic could be encrypted, so you'd have to analyze the JavaScript.
Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing
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Send is meant to be an improvement on Dropbox & co for a specific use case. Is it perfect? No, it isn't. But it is still a considerable improvement. If you have a better solution in mind for the average user crowd, feel free to suggest it, of course.
Well there's reasoning which states that bad security is worse than no security. The reason for it, is that if you trust the site to be secure it might be devastating once security is compromised, but with no security you're typically more careful.
We are more careful, as in the HN crowd. The general public? I'd wager "not so much".
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File.pizza is very seamless point to point transfer of arbitrary file sizes. Doesn't work in safari though (haven't tested ie) so maybe it is not general enough for your use case.
Does it work in Safari in High Sierra? I thought they had WebRTC now.
That's a good question. My box is too old for High Sierra, so I can't check and didn't think that my browser is now outdated feature-wise, before writing the comment.
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#254I think Mozilla should create a more privacy friendly analytics service, since they experiment with new projects
I don't think Mozilla should do one thing at a time.
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In that case, wouldn't an alternative like OnionShare always be safer? The code is open source, it's a desktop app, and the source code is obviously immutable on your computer.
Surly the safest option is to encrypt it yourself first?
You could upload it to Freenet, then there won’t even be a record what was up- and downloaded by whom: No one will have the metadata.
Info: http://www.draketo.de/light/english/freenet/effortless-passw...
Install: https://freenetproject.org
Re: Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing
#256The last time this was posted I hacked up a quick and dirty Python client for Send: https://github.com/nneonneo/ffsend . I just updated it for recent Send changes, which streamlined the crypto and removed some redundancy. Firefox’s JS client requires the whole file be in memory in order to perform the encryption, and has to decrypt the whole file in memory in order to download it. My client doesn’t have that limitati…
have you bumped already into server upload limit?
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#257I think Mozilla should create a more privacy friendly analytics service, since they experiment with new projects
Do you know Piwik? Its a really nice open source, self hostable alternative to Google Analytics. I've been running it for years, very stable and great insight.
www.piwik.org
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That is FUD and also a lie. You can still distribute your extensions on whatever site you want, you just need to sign them on AMO. The workflow is: 1 - Build webextension 2 - Upload to AMO 3 - Choose "distribute on AMO" or "sign and distribute on your site"
If I need to get Mozilla's approval before I can run code in the browser running on my machine then I see a wall. That they've automated it so much as to mitigate the protection a walled garden normally gives almost makes it worse.
You can install Firefox Beta or Nightly and have unrestricted extension installation options (or use a Linux distro's packages: most of such firefox packages do not require signed extensions).
It's a measure to prevent casual trojans, there are many ways around it for non-casuals and developers to employ.
Re: Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing
#259If you only need to send text, https://cryptopaste.com does everything client side and shows the ciphertext in a "staging area" before you commit it to the cloud. You can instead save it as a self-decrypting document, attaching it to email, copy to thumbdrive, upload dropbox, etc.
Great implementation but doesn't work with Greek, spews out garbage. Here against original text in notepad.exe https://i.imgur.com/n1WCsnZ.png
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#260Is this a Wetransfer killer?
No, since its just downloadable once.