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Re: Firefox Monitor

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I find it difficult to trust Apple for security considering their morally bankrupt behaviour in rest of their business. They have proven their sole principle is monetary, so I find it difficult to perceive their recent claim to care about user security as anything beyond opportunism.

A large chunk of their marketing nowadays is around privacy and it looks like it's more and more in their priorities, and Apple is a company that has historically loved by suckling at their customers sweet wallety nectar. So yeah even if they're driven by money, their best interest is aligned with their customers'- living up to the promise that your data is yours with them. The other thing is that there seems to be a…

Yup. They're in privacy because their biggest competitor is Android and this is their best angle. Tech advancements for phones are ho-hum at this point, so this is how they compete with carrier-based incentives for android phones on upgrade.

That's all fine and good, but privacy is a float, not a bool, and let's not assume Apple's going to go any further than they have to. They won't ever ask their users to do something inconvenient to get better privacy. They're not discussing specific threat models that they're trying to protect their users against. Just features that they support in specific use cases.

Which may sound like a hollow problem, but it leaves each user to deal with understanding all the threats they're under and what measures they should take. That's fertile ground for an adaptive adversary to work with.

Re: Firefox Monitor

#62

Disclaimer: Firefox Monitor dev here. Note: We just released a "V2" of the site that allows you to add multiple email addresses to monitor, and (then) to have all your breach alerts sent to your single primary email address.

Are there plans to monitor an entire custom domain?

Re: Firefox Monitor

#63

I really wish Firefox would focus, and I don't mean Firefox Focus. If they focused on making it simple, fast, and reliable, it would have a much better shot at taking market share from Chrome. On top of that, I wish everything on top of a browser was truly optional - that they didn't have reminders of sync spread throughout the app, and that they didn't have a Pocket button in the toolbar unless I logged in with Pock…

> If they focused on making it simple, fast, and reliable, it would have a much better shot at taking market share from Chrome.

imho, they've already achieved this and have a great browser that's at least comparably-competent against Chrome.

The battle Mozilla has with Firefox isn't in improving its tech specs, it's in winning over hearts and minds, and that's a complicated, somewhat costly game.

(I say this as a long-term Firefox user who encourages it with all my friends and family)

Re: Firefox Monitor

#64
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Are they doing anything with the email addresses beyond checking they appear in breach databases ? Are they anonymizing things, for example using some kind of one-way hash to match email addresses ? Is it GDPR-compliant ? There is not clear explanation of how they're processing that data as there should be as email addresses are personal information.

Also, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox-monitor/

Re: Firefox Monitor

#65
So basically if I put somebody's email address I could know the sites they have logged in in the past?

And then I can use the leak and get access to their account? Shouldn't this information be mailed to the email address queried rather than displaying upfront

Re: Firefox Monitor

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Not everything needs to be a "big tech company", but you are right big tech companies are quite similar in this respect. At critical mass capitalism seems to cause companies to lose their driving principles that made them unique - their behaviour becomes more of a mindless ecology driven solely by money. Now look at Mozilla, it's a non profit, look at everything it does, they have never lost their principles. They wi…

The downvotes might be because you responded to a request for more detail with: > I don't think I need to explain what those are... Why don't you humor us and give some examples anyways?

I didn't downvote, but yeah, not sure what the poster is getting on about.

Personally, I think Apple is significantly different than the other company with respect to customer data, etc.

Apple Pay, iOS vault, etc., come to mind.

Re: Firefox Monitor

#68

So basically if I put somebody's email address I could know the sites they have logged in in the past? And then I can use the leak and get access to their account? Shouldn't this information be mailed to the email address queried rather than displaying upfront

It’s already publicly available in the dumps Mozilla are searching on your behalf. They’re only making a front end to already public info.

Re: Firefox Monitor

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I can’t think of a big tech device company that’s any less driven by money than apple. What makes them so unique, in your mind? In my experience I’ve had less unwanted tracking and advertising, and better support compared to other phone and laptop manufacturers I used to buy from.

Not everything needs to be a "big tech company", but you are right big tech companies are quite similar in this respect. At critical mass capitalism seems to cause companies to lose their driving principles that made them unique - their behaviour becomes more of a mindless ecology driven solely by money. Now look at Mozilla, it's a non profit, look at everything it does, they have never lost their principles. They wi…

> Now look at Mozilla, it's a non profit, look at everything it does, they have never lost their principles.

I take issue with this. Mozilla has a corporate arm and they're the ones in control of Firefox marketing and development. Take for example the fact that they were (most likely) paid to install an extension to advertise a TV show.

Apple has yet to display any ads to me on my Mac, unlike Microsoft in Windows. I think your criticisms are well intended, but your conclusions are way off.

Re: Firefox Monitor

#70

Does this have an API? I would pay a nominal amount to have this tied to my 1password DB to crosscheck all the emails I use. Since I use a different email for each site, I'd like this automated. Also do you think this is the same value as LifeLock?

The footer of the results list says “Breach data provided by Have I Been Pwned” and it looks like Have I Been Pwned has an API here https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v2 . I personally don’t see a benefit to Firefox Monitor, aside from a new channel of exposure and branding for Firefox, if they are providing the same data Have I Been Pwned is.

Trust. Mozilla is a relatively well-known trustworthy entity. "Have I been Pwned" sounds like some shady website that will steal your data. I've certainly never heard of it before, and Random Randy definitely won't have.
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