[Trisquel-devel] [Testing] Abrowser 130.0.1 for testing

[Luis Guzman]

En 25/09/24 23:01, Eric escribió:
>
> Wouldn't most e-mail clients like the Icedove package too have a
> similar problem related to saving the password or is the security
> different? It's possible to save e-mail account passwords on
> Icedove without any security other than your user password to
> enter the system

They do share some weak points in security, some can be addressed by 
encrypting your machine disk (available at the installation setup), 
using password authentication to start session, enable a master password 
usage on Icedove, even go further en use GPG encryption on every single 
message and basically don't leave your machine unattended.

But the main difference is that Icedove /Thunderbird don't pretend to 
save passwords for all the possible accounts available on the internet, 
nor addresses / credit card information. There are better tools for such 
task, tools that comply with better security standards and policies.

This doesn't mean that the feature to save passwords in Abrowser / 
Firefox is being removed, just not enabled. You can enable it back if 
you already use it, maybe take into account the recommendations above 
and check what else can be added to harden your setup.

I hope that helped clear things up.

Regards.

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