Re: [tor-talk] Downloading Firefox add-ons trough Tor. Safe?

[tagnaq <tagnaq@xxxxxxxxx>]

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hikki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Justin Aplin <japlin@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
>> I honestly don't know, but if you're *that* paranoid about your downloads 
>> being tampered with, navigating to https://addons.mozilla.org and looking 
>> up the add-ons manually is only a few extra clicks.
> 
> I think it only checks the version with HTTPS, but download trough standard HTTP.
> I'm wondering if Firefox 3.6 has some checking of checksums or anything, not 
> because I'm paranoid but because I'm wondering if this is safe to do on a 
> regular basis by updating add-ons trough tor.

This was recently discussed:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2011-June/020755.html

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