Re: Mozilla Cloud non-Decryptable Download?

Francois Marier <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:59:19 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.security
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 27/11/15 03:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1034140.html#7847334
> 
> But in short: if these are legitimate, what are they, and where are they
> now in my system.

The small one is the tracking protection blacklist
(mozstd-track-digest256) and the larger one is the entity whitelist
(mozstd-trackwhite-digest256).

You can find more info about these lists here:

  https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tracking_protection#Lists

> (Also why any "tracking protection" when I don't have it in my Firefox
> settings?)

They are downloaded if one (or both) of these prefs is turned on:

  privacy.trackingprotection.enabled (default: false)
  privacy.trackingprotection.pbmode.enabled (default: true)

Francois