Re: Preliminary work on IceCat 78 now pushed to the 'master' branch

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi,

brn@iinet.net.au writes:

> Regarding unwanted connections: You've all most likely seen the recent 
> paper below, but just in case you haven't:
>
> https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
>
> The reference above details methodology deployed to analyse various 
> browsers network activity at "rest".  Firefox was one of the browsers 
> tested.

I hadn't seen it, thanks!  Among other things, it brought my attention
to 'mitmproxy', which may be a good tool to decrypt HTTPS connections.

      Mark