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[URGENT] Privacy and security risk bug - webRTC

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Mcgiwer
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Please urgently block the webRTC

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Latelly, in Firefox has been discovered a serious bug regarding webRTC with would allow a third party to violate the user's privacy and security

Please urgently block the webRTC Explanation: Latelly, in Firefox has been discovered a serious bug regarding webRTC with would allow a third party to violate the user's privacy and security

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philipp
philipp
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hello, can you be a bit more precise about what kind of bug you're thinking of in particular?

Mcgiwer
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The source article describing the base of problem is here: https://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/03/04/stunnion-detecting-ip-address-leaks-during-tor-onion-browsing/ but it's the top of the icehill

philipp
philipp
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hi, this is the way the webrtc standard is drafted & working at the moment and known for a while (so hardly an urgent bug). firefox 42 will contain some more fine-grained settings to control that webrtc behaviour in case you are interested about this: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Media/WebRTC/Privacy