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Geode: some more headaches for TorButton? :-P

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Subject: Geode: some more headaches for TorButton? :-P
From: "Marco Bonetti" <marco.bonetti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:00:02 +0200 (CEST)
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Link bounced from /.: http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/10/introducing-geode/

Looks like the upcoming versions of firefox will ship the support for W3C
geolocation specification: what's better for a tor attacker to ask
directly to the browser where its user lives? ;-)
I'm quite confident there'll be a way to (easily?) disable this feature
but it's scaring stuff nevertheless.

ciao

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