The most SECURE browser?

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  1. Posts : 213
    Windows 7 Professional Version 6.1 Build 7601 SP1
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       #121

    Callender said:
    When attempting to change cookie settings to:

    Allow local data to be set (recommended)

    there's no way that the setting will stick. I wonder if that could be related to the last window size and position issue?

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    I wish someone from WhiteHat would join this conversation.
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  2. Posts : 10,485
    W7 Pro SP1 64bit
       #122

    In Chrome, there is a section of the Preferences file that records the window placement/size:
    The most SECURE browser?-chrome-window.png
    Aviator's Preferences file seems to be missing that info (by design?).

    Aviator seems to break some things (by design?) for the sake of privacy.

    I'm not sure that it is possible to allow local data to be set...
    ...when Aviator launches a child that disables databases.
    The most SECURE browser?-disable.png

    Code:
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\WhiteHat\Aviator\Application\Aviator.exe" --type=renderer --disable-databases --lang=en-US --force-fieldtrials=BrowserPreReadExperiment/100-pct-default/Prerender/Prerender15minTTL/UMA-New-Install-Uniformity-Trial/Experiment/UMA-Session-Randomized-Uniformity-Trial-5-Percent/group_17/UMA-Uniformity-Trial-1-Percent/group_60/UMA-Uniformity-Trial-10-Percent/group_04/UMA-Uniformity-Trial-100-Percent/group_01/UMA-Uniformity-Trial-20-Percent/group_04/UMA-Uniformity-Trial-5-Percent/group_18/UMA-Uniformity-Trial-50-Percent/group_01/ --enable-threaded-compositing --enable-delegated-renderer --enable-deadline-scheduling --disable-pepper-3d --disable-accelerated-compositing --disable-accelerated-video-decode --disable-webrtc-hw-encoding --enable-software-compositing --disable-gpu-compositing --disable-pepper-3d --channel="3504.1.1821746514\1381905567" /prefetch:673131151
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  3. Posts : 53,363
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       #123

    Perhaps they are trying to make the fingerprint less unique?

    https://panopticlick.eff.org/

    A Guy
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  4. Posts : 10,485
    W7 Pro SP1 64bit
       #124

    A Guy said:
    Perhaps they are trying to make the fingerprint less unique?

    https://panopticlick.eff.org/

    A Guy
    Pale Moon warns me thusly...
    The most SECURE browser?-palemoon.png
    ...while Aviator happily takes me there without warning.
    (I know/trust EEF - having followed their work for more than a decade via RISK digest.)

    Unfortunately, Aviator fails EFF's test:
    The most SECURE browser?-fingerprint.png
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  5. Posts : 213
    Windows 7 Professional Version 6.1 Build 7601 SP1
    Thread Starter
       #125

    A Guy said:
    Perhaps they are trying to make the fingerprint less unique?

    https://panopticlick.eff.org/

    A Guy
    UsernameIssues said:
    A Guy said:
    Perhaps they are trying to make the fingerprint less unique?

    https://panopticlick.eff.org/

    A Guy
    Pale Moon warns me thusly...
    The most SECURE browser?-palemoon.png
    ...while Aviator happily takes me there without warning.
    (I know/trust EEF - having followed their work for more than a decade via RISK digest.)

    Unfortunately, Aviator fails EFF's test:
    The most SECURE browser?-fingerprint.png

    I performed the https://panopticlick.eff.org/ test on both my Chrome Browser and Aviator browser. I'm not sure how to determine which ones more secure:



    That one is Chrome.


    And this one is Aviator...

    How am i to tell the difference? What's good what's bad, etc? Did Chrome do better than Aviator?

    Last edited by exitPr0gram; 26 May 2014 at 20:09. Reason: Clarification
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  6. Posts : 4,776
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
       #126

    Privacy designed in


    Yes I think that must be the case and it does really seems that some of those settings are not meant to be enabled or cannot be enabled for either security or privacy reasons. What it really needs from a user perspective is the removal of those options from the settings menus.
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  7. Posts : 213
    Windows 7 Professional Version 6.1 Build 7601 SP1
    Thread Starter
       #127

    Callender said:
    Yes I think that must be the case and it does really seems that some of those settings are not meant to be enabled or cannot be enabled for either security or privacy reasons. What it really needs from a user perspective is the removal of those options from the settings menus.
    to which post are you referring to ?

    Call me a newbie but i don't know exactly what that sites used for and it seems UserNameIssues trusted it for some time now and i'd like to know more about it... Does the sites main page explain everything? Either way, i'd like how to read the results so i can compare my Chrome to my Aviator

    It seems like a test to see how "Unique" a browser is from the details on the front page of that site.

    What could be safely modified to make a browser's "Fingerprint" more unique? It seems as if Aviator is more unique than most but UserNameIssues comment in post#124 states that the browser failed EFF's test =(
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  8. Posts : 4,776
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       #128

    Post 126 was referring to UNI's comments in Post 122

    I should have made that clear!
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  9. Posts : 10,485
    W7 Pro SP1 64bit
       #129

    You can try to follow the info presented here https://panopticlick.eff.org/self-defense.php to try and pass the test.

    I don't attempt to be that hidden on the web.
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  10. Posts : 213
    Windows 7 Professional Version 6.1 Build 7601 SP1
    Thread Starter
       #130

    Adblock Conflict and Settings as Default Browser


    Callender said:
    Post 126 was referring to UNI's comments in Post 122

    I should have made that clear!
    UsernameIssues said:
    You can try to follow the info presented here https://panopticlick.eff.org/self-defense.php to try and pass the test.

    I don't attempt to be that hidden on the web.
    Oh well anyway... The response I received for Setting Aviator as the Default browser is as follows:

    Hi,

    Thanks again for the interest in Aviator. We’re aware of the default problem and working on a fix right now. In the meantime, I’ve pasted below a suggested workaround from our development team that’ll fix the problem. It’s obviously more complicated this way than it needs to be, and hopefully by next update the default option will work as it’s supposed to.

    Users who already installed Aviator, can run Aviator as Admin once to make it default browser using the steps below:
    1. Close Aviator instance if it is running
    2. Desktop -> Right Click on Aviator Icon -> Run as Admin
    3. After the UAC, the user has to set Aviator as the default browser.

    Let me know if you have any more questions, and yeah, I’ll check out that forum and see if I can help out on anything in my limited non-technical capacity.

    Regards,

    Mason Kolbeck
    Aviator Customer Support
    WhiteHat Security, Inc.
    Web: http://whitehatsec.com/aviator
    Email: aviator@whitehatsec.com




    As far as Adblock conflicting with Disconnect in Aviator the replay was:

    While in the past Adblock would conflict with Disconnect, it seems that’s no longer the case right now and I haven’t heard of a single user who’s had a problem or change in performance after installation of adblock. This doesn’t mean that there absolutely won’t be any problems, but it doesn’t look like there’s blatant incompatibility between the two and the average user should be fine.
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