Re: Privacy guarantees
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 06:18:16AM +0000, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 2:44 PM Felix Lechner wrote:
> > A fellow developer and I have reached an impasse over the appropriate
> > level of privacy guarantees in Debian. [1]
> I think that lintian privacy tags currently represent several sets of bugs:
> The browsers shipping in Debian place no barriers between local files
> on disk, sites on the local network and sites on the Internet. So if
> someone reads some local documentation they didn't get from Debian
> using a browser from Debian, they could have a privacy violation.
Could you please describe what the policy violation is you see?
Especially as you generalize.
And yes, the browsers place barriers between local files and network.
E.g. chromium enforces a referrer policy of
"strict-origin-when-cross-origin" on file://.
Bastian
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