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A #security bug report landed at #Mozilla...
all #browsers affected...
thousands attacks...
...one solution.

Opt-in #JS.

#Mozilla begrudgingly implements tracking protection by default, after being shamed into it yet again by Safari, the DuckDuckGo browser, and Gnome Web (just the ones I know who implemented it first) and talks a good talk while still having Google as its default search engine and continuing to get hundreds of millions from Google/Alphabet, Inc. – the largest surveillance capitalist in the world. (Mozilla Corp is ~entirely funded by surveillance capitalism.)

Hyprocrites.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/08/30/changing-our-approach-to-anti-tracking/

#Mozilla goes at it hard against #tracking in #Firefox 🔥

"This is about more than protecting users — it’s about giving them a voice. Some sites will continue to want user data in exchange for content, but now they will have to ask for it.."

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/08/30/changing-our-approach-to-anti-tracking/

#Mozilla will change the way your #Firefox looks up DNS records. They say it's to protect your privacy and thats even somehow true. They announced two different ways to handle DNS lookups:

The first one is DoH (DNS over HTTPS) wich makes a lot of sense, since it just encrypts the DNS lookups.

The other one is TRR (Trusted Recursive Resolver) & involves sending all Firefox users' DNS lookups to a private, US based tech firm: #Cloudflare.

Here's why this is a bad idea:

https://blog.ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2018/08/04/mozillas-new-dns-resolution-is-dangerous/

4th in #Mozilla's #DWeb series introducing #decentralization and distributed tech. This time we hear from #BeakerBrowser and @taravancil

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/08/dweb-serving-the-web-from-the-browser-with-beaker/

1.. Intro https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/07/introducing-the-d-web/
2.. Scuttlebutt https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/08/dweb-social-feeds-with-secure-scuttlebutt/
3.. WebTorrent https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/08/dweb-building-a-resilient-web-with-webtorrent/

For anyone else hyperventilating at the #Firefox testing of the new #IETF standard recommendation: #DoH

You might like to hear about options to still use DoH and NOT #Cloudflare #Mozilla is not about to introduce a Single Point of Failure. It's testing a new standard via one of the early adopting DNS providers.

Anyways, here's a list of alternative DoH end-points! https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/DNS-over-HTTPS#publicly-available-servers

Tickets for the #Mozilla Festival #London October 26-29 have just been made publicly available.

I'm already excited about the #Mozfest PARTY!! #Mozillians most definitely know how to party.

https://ti.to/mozilla/mozilla-festival-2018 via @david_ross

Gervase Markham has died. A huge loss for the #FLOSS world.

Thank you Gerv for your tireless work for #FreeSoftware & #OpenSource by helping lead #Mozilla's mission in myriad ways.

As always, it is our task to take all that was beautiful, kind, and meaningful about him and weave it into the tapestry of our futures in such a manner to honor him and give added meaning to our lives.

Such is the nature of life, love, death, and life after loss.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gervase_Markham_(programmer)

https://www.gerv.net/

As a #Mozilla Fellow, Hung attended 2017's #Mozfest and showcased her Data Selfies project with a weekend long GALLERY installation.

(only because it was good mind, us wranglers still say no to proposals from fellows and staff!)

This shocking exploration of a social platform (where financial exchanges and messages are all in the open) finds users divulging some truly personal information. Fascinating data interactivity!

#privacy

https://publicbydefault.fyi

#Mozilla's holding a #MozFest #AMA todayfrom 13:00 UTC over on the birdsite

In the spirit of the rebellion, several of us space wranglers are actually right here in the Fediverse. So ask here too!

Thinking of submitting a session but unsure if the idea is a good fit for MozFest?

Not sure how to make a session “interactive” or “inclusive”? Questions about formats, spaces, scheduling, tech or travel stipends? Curious of the curation process or “Data and You” theme?

Today's the day to get help

Jesse is Digital Director of the #Mozilla Foundation. Here's his personal view on #Github https://medium.com/@jessevondoom/microsoft-is-buying-github-and-the-sky-still-hasnt-fallen-cfc79fa6a320