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Re: [tor-bugs] #21034 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Per site security settings?
#21034: Per site security settings?
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Reporter: arthuredelstein | Owner: tbb-team
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Actual Points:
Parent ID: #20843 | Points:
Reviewer: | Sponsor:
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Comment (by jonathanfemideer):
**There should be a way for the user to keep the security level at High
for all sites except for a few specific sites, and to set the latter to
Medium.**
In Tor Browser 6.5, this does not seem to be possible. In particular,
there does not seem to be a way to choose per-site security settings.
In a ideal world, users would be able to use the "High" setting, and this
would *just work* on all sites. (Onion > Security Settings > High.)
However, some websites (e.g. some bug trackers and some webmail clients)
are built in a way that requires the user to execute some JavaScript. For
such websites and webmail clients, the only two options seem to be:
1. Change the browser security settings (Onion > Security Settings >
Medium).
2. Click NoScript icon > "Temporarily allow all this page".
These both have disadvantages. Respectively:
1. If the user subsequently opens a new tab to visit a different
website, this will now only be at the Medium security setting instead of
the High setting, even if this latter website would work fine with the
High setting. So the user's security gets reduced on the new site,
unnecessarily. Alternatively, if the user is keeping one or more tabs open
for the first site, while using other tabs to browse other sites that are
less trusted or don't require the Medium setting, then the user has to
keep adjusting the browser security level each time they want to interact
with the first site in one of those tabs. ''TL;DR: switching tabs
shouldn't require changing security settings to make the contents of those
tabs function.''
2. "Temporarily allow all this page" seems to be less secure than the
Medium security setting. A user might trust a website (or need to use it)
just enough to be willing to reduce the security level to Medium in order
to make it function, but no lower than that. "Temporarily allow all this
page" seems to be more like reducing the security level for that site to
Low.
So, to reiterate, there should be a way for the user to set the default
security level to High, and then to make exceptions on a per-site basis.
N.B. I have not yet encountered any websites that require the security
level to be set to Low, but perhaps such websites do exist. If so, then
please consider my question to extend to allowing a per-site setting of
Low for those websites.
(Original discussion: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-
talk/2017-March/042982.html )
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21034#comment:5>
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