Is It Time to Ditch Firefox?

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Mozilla's first ever terms of service and privacy policy, raising some eyebrows. Sweden and France are jumping on the encryption backdoor bandwagon, some big news from many beloved FOSS projects and more. Welcome to Surrealist Report 216, where we are dedicated to keeping you private and secure with the latest news from the past week. I am Nathan from The New Oil. And I'm Henry from Tech Law. This week, we want to remind you of our sponsor, Easy Optouts.

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What I said was Turkey having a journalist murdered. What I was referring to, whose name I couldn't remember off the top of my head, was Jamal Khashoggi. I mixed up my country. Saudi Arabia had him murdered, but it was at their embassy in Turkey. So it physically happened in Turkey, but the Turkish government wasn't responsible.

For those of you who were correcting me in good faith, thank you. I apologize for getting it wrong. And I'm sorry if that upset anybody. And not to like brush it off, but for the record, I hope that you guys were still able to understand the point that I was trying to make. I was going off script that wasn't written in the show notes. So I apologize that sometimes it's hard to keep track of all the crappy things that repressive regimes are doing around the world.

(upbeat music) That'll take us into our highlight story, which is a big one from Mozilla. I'm actually gonna draw from a few different sources here. And we'll just say Mozilla is introducing terms of use to Firefox. So first let's start off with Mozilla themselves.

And here's what they said. "We're introducing a terms of use for Firefox for the first time, along with an updated privacy notice. Why now? Although we've historically relied on our open source license for Firefox and public commitments to you, we are building in a much different technology landscape today.

We want to make these commitments abundantly clear and accessible. In addition to the terms of use, we are providing a more detailed explanation of our data practices in our updated privacy notice." You can go read that blog post.

You can go read the terms themselves. It's kind of standard stuff in the sense that it's very vague, very PR friendly. I don't think in and of itself it really says a whole lot.

So I'm gonna quote a couple of other sources that added some additional context. And the first one is Omgobuntu, who wrote, "This official terms of use will, Mozilla argues, offer users more transparency over their rights and permissions as they use Firefox to browse the information superhighway, as well as Mozilla's rights to help them do it. As this excerpt makes clear," and this is a quote from the terms of service, "You give Mozilla all necessary rights to operate Firefox, including processing data, as we describe in the privacy notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet." Quick pause there. That's actually the edited version, the original version. It didn't say all rights necessary.

It basically said like all rights, just it was a lot more vague and they did tighten that up a little bit. I guess that's worth giving them credit for. Continuing on, this is still quoting their terms of service.

"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox." Again, that one is edited and tightened up. It used to say just information you upload to Firefox or something like that, which was very unclear. Omgobuntu notes that, "Mozilla has since added an addendum to their announcement to clarify the wording in the above excerpts. For example, it says that it, quote, "needs a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible.

Without it, we couldn't use information typed into Firefox. For example, it does not give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the privacy notice." And actually, on that one, let's bounce over to TechCrunch.

And I'm sorry, I've got like four different sources here, but they all had like different perspectives that I thought were relevant. "The company told TechCrunch that its privacy notice still applies when using its AI features and content data is not sent to Mozilla or elsewhere. Plus, data shared with advertisers is de-identified." Quick pause, veterans know you cannot de-anonymize most data.

That's just worth noting. Anyways, back to quoting TechCrunch. "The company said that users can opt out of having their data processed for advertising by turning off a setting relating to technical and interaction data on both desktop and mobile at any time."

And there's links on how to do that in the TechCrunch article. "Mozilla also further claimed why it used certain terms, saying that the term non-exclusive was used to indicate that Mozilla doesn't want an exclusive license to user data because users should be able to do other things with that data too. Royalty free was used because Firefox is free and neither Mozilla nor the user should owe each other money in exchange for handling the data in order to provide the browser. And worldwide was used because Firefox is available worldwide and provides access to the global internet." I think those are some fair points, but we'll get into a deeper analysis later.

The last one that I drew from here is Ars Technica. And this is more of a newer side of this that's coming to light. So this is kind of a little bit of an update, it still concerns this same terms of use and privacy change. Ars says, "Firefox maker Mozilla deleted a promise to never sell its users personal data and is trying to assure worried users that its approach to privacy hasn't fundamentally changed.

Until recently, a Firefox FAQ promised that the browser maker never has and never will sell its users personal data. An archived version from January 30th says, "Does Firefox sell all your personal data?" And the answer is, nope, never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. That promise is removed from the current version. There's also a notable change in a data privacy FAQ that used to say, "Mozilla doesn't sell data about you and we don't buy data about you."

The FAQ now explains that Mozilla is no longer making blanket promises about not selling data because some legal jurisdictions define sale in a very broad way. And here's the updated version. "Mozilla doesn't sell data about you in the way that most people think about selling data and we don't buy data about you.

Since we strive for transparency and the legal definition of sale of data is extremely broad in some places, we've had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data we share with our partners, which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable, is stripped of any identifying information or shared only in the aggregate or is put through our privacy-preserving technologies like OHTTP." Mozilla didn't say which legal jurisdictions have these broad definitions.

Last but not least, I wanted to end on going back to OMG Ubuntu. They said, "The new terms only apply to the executable code version of Firefox, not the source code, which means that downstream forks shouldn't be roped into these terms against their will." So there is a lot to unpack here. Those of you who listen to the patron version or follow me on Mastodon personally, know that I am very critical of Mozilla.

In my opinion, they've been going downhill for quite a while. I think objectively in terms of their browser, there's a lot of complaints about it not supporting a lot of modern features, a lot of modern security standards, web standards, things of that nature. Personally, I'm a little bit less concerned by that.

I'm a little concerned by the direction of the company. I've said this before for veteran listeners, this is nothing new, but I know this is usually the section that's hidden behind a patron paywall, so you guys don't usually get to hear this analysis. I don't like the way that it feels to me like as a company, they're just throwing everything against the wall and seeing what sticks. They bought a fake review spotter, which I mean, sure that's a cool plugin, but like why is that Mozilla's crusade? Like that seems really out of left field. They've been investing a bunch in AI right now, which you know, Andy Young from Proton made a pretty good argument that like that's the direction the market is going, and it's gonna go that way whether or not you jump on board. So they may as well jump on board and provide people a privacy friendly version of AI, which I would argue we now have plenty of those options in the form of like locally run LLMs, Braves, Leo, I think DuckDuckGo even has a proxy.

And then of course, most recently, they acquired an advertising company and they're trying to get into the advertising game. And look, I understand Mozilla's trying to be self-sustaining and profitable. I approve of that because I think it's really concerning that they get like 80% of their money from Google, but it doesn't feel like they've got an actual vision. It seems like they're just jumping on anything and they're like, well, let's try this and see what works, which to some extent that's gonna happen with any company. It just doesn't feel organized and it doesn't feel like there's a clear direction going on at Mozilla. I guess the only thought I really have, because I kind of put in a lot of my analysis as we went, I understand the argument for Firefox itself.

Like I understand the argument of we need an alternative to Brave and the Chromium Engine and the Google Monopoly, but I don't understand standing up for Mozilla at this point, especially with this, like this is so broad and this to me is very concerning. And I know all the apologists are gonna sit here and be like, well, you know, they explained like their wording and their licenses and its privacy preserving and it's this and that and the other, but to me, it's no different. Like this is just all part of a broader trend. I don't know why I'm trying to convince those people.

They're not gonna be convinced. To me, this is just really troubling. And I think it opens a lot of doors that are not gonna end well. And this is just further interdification of Mozilla as a company, which is inevitably running off on Firefox.

But unfortunately, I don't have a better solution at this time. There are a ton of forks out there. I have lost track of how many Firefox forks there are. There's Zen, which is still new. So it's kind of too early to call on that one. There's Mulvat and Leberwolf, which are a little bit too hardened for the average person.

There's like all these other ones that never get updated and you have to compile the code and like this, that and the other. It's really kind of crappy. Like Firefox and Brave, I feel like are the two best browsers we have.

And both of the companies behind them kind of suck. So I don't know. I think that's kind of where I'm at is this is just disappointing and I don't know what to do about it. I put some notes here on my end for my analysis. First, I just wanna say this is like to me, the way I'm reading this whole saga, this is 80% legal stuff. This is not a technological change directly.

It's updating terms and conditions. It's legal stuff. And I think speculating what the rest of the 20% is, which is what everybody's trying to do, it's just not possible. I'm seeing people say, this means they're gonna be training LLMs. This means they're gonna install a VPN within the browser.

It's gonna collect your data. It's like, we don't know what this is gonna mean for the tech. For all we know, they're gonna release their best feature next year that might require some data collection and they couldn't have released that feature without these term updates.

My point is both those things are likely. It's just Mozilla's direction definitely makes us think that the negative is more possible, which I don't disagree with. I think that forks are still safe. This only applies, Nate said that at the end. So if you use mall that, if you use anything else, you don't have to really worry about this.

The only people that have to worry about this are people using the actual Firefox browser. This doesn't change the licensing of the source code. It's just the installation of actual Firefox.

I will say a lot of people asked me to make a video on this, like a dedicated video, but I actually don't know how anyone else made a video on it. If you covered everything that's happening, you get less than, like what? We were recording now for 16 minutes and that includes the intro, the sponsor segment. I don't know how, there's nothing else to say. All you can say is, I don't know what's gonna happen from here.

People are coming at this with wild speculations. So if someone says this is exactly what's gonna happen, they just don't know that. We just have to watch to see what happens and then react appropriately once it does. I don't think you need to move away from Firefox because of this right now.

I think maybe if you're currently a Firefox user and down the road they start releasing features that are then considered like a risk to your privacy or your data or your rights, then react. And you'll probably get a heads up before it actually impacts you. So I don't think this needs to be like a plan ahead before something goes wrong. I don't see this going in a direction it's gonna be terrible. I think it's also important to keep context, which is Firefox still has an important purpose in the browser space in some ways. And a lot of these terms are still better than what you'll find in Chrome and some of these other browsers.

So I think it's worth just keeping some perspective on the situation here. I think Mozilla has done worse things than this that they got a lot less crap for. So I'm just weirded out by this being like the thing that set a lot of people off, I guess. I don't think what they did was good. And I'm not really defending Mozilla's behavior, but I am trying to challenge a lot of the common responses I've seen from people which don't seem very grounded in like the actual events that have happened.

Nate might disagree with me on that one. Like I said, I don't really have a better solution. So I'm not gonna tell everybody because my arguments come from, I'm thinking of the new oil. Like if I'm gonna stop recommending Firefox, first of all, I don't wanna do that because I like to give my readers choice. I don't wanna tell everybody just go use Brave because there are a lot of perfectly valid criticisms against Brave.

But then there's also, I asked a couple of my friends to download Moldad and I was like, I straight up told them. I'm like, this was, I think right after Mozilla bought the advertising company. I was like, hey, do me a favor, download this browser, try it out for like a week and tell me your thoughts on it.

And one of my friends, first of all, is paying for some God awful antivirus like Norton or something, which was their first mistake. And I told them that, but they were incredibly frustrated because Norton flag did his malware and then the little flag wouldn't go away even after they uninstalled it. And it was just, they had to reboot the computer and it was really frustrating for them and I felt really bad.

And then my other friend got it installed fine. But the first thing they noticed is they went to all their streaming sites like Netflix and Hulu and HBO and none of them worked. It's hard to find, like I said, that user friendly browser that's been around for more than 10 minutes that I can recommend to people and be like, hey, Firefox sucks, but here's this fork of Firefox that removes all the garbage telemetry, that removes all the Google whitelisting, that removes all the, these are real things by the way that you can look up, removes all the advertising built in crap and just gives you something that isn't Brave and isn't the chromium monopoly and things like that. If you think there is something that fits my definition, please send it to me. But what I was gonna say is like in response to you, like you're right, I don't think this specific move is the worst thing that Mozilla has done, but to me personally, and I can't speak for everybody, but for me, it's part of a larger trend.

Like I said, it's adding the advertising company, it's the buckshot, invest in every company known to man and see what sticks. Some of them, which to me, just don't even really seem to make sense. And then for those of you who don't know, we didn't cover this and it wasn't really directly privacy related, but just like two weeks ago, Mozilla like restructured their board and now they have like three new board members. And I swear to God, maybe this is my bias, but to me, it seems like they were just like, oh, my buddy needs a job, let's create some job titles.

It's like, what are you people doing? Is there anyone at this company who knows how to run a company? But just from the outside looking in, it's like, I don't understand where this company is going. It doesn't seem coherent and it doesn't seem like they have any sort of direction or vision or plan. It's like they just walk into work one day and go, oh, let's try this and see what happens. And it's so frustrating. It's been such a long history of questionable decisions and tone deafness that makes me just not even trust them because at this point, I feel like it's just a matter of time before they wake up one day.

And it's like, hey, we've gone ahead and baked Google Analytics into every single page and ejected into the code. And I'm literally gonna read that headline and just be like, yeah, that tracks. Like I'm not even surprised anymore.

That or they'll wake up and be like, hey, we're proud to announce Mozilla Pizza Company. It's like, cool, nobody asked for that either, but whatever. And now we have the data breaches. We're gonna start with the US employee screening giant, DISA, D-I-S-A, says hackers access data of more than 3 million people. So the services they provide are like drug and alcohol testing and background checks to more than 55,000 enterprises and a third of Fortune 500 companies.

The breach occurred on February 9th and was discovered on April 22nd, 2024. This impacted over 3 million people. It included social security numbers, financial account information, including credit card numbers and government issued ID documents.

Orange Group has confirmed a breach after an attacker leaked company documents. So this is a leading French telecommunications operator and digital services provider. There were about 380,000 individuals impacted including current and former employees, partners and contractors. The data leaked included email addresses, source code, invoices, contracts, customer and employee info and partial payment card details, but only for Romanian customers on that last one.

Have I been pwned? If you have never heard of it, check it out. You can put in an email and see if you've been caught in any data breaches. They've added 284 million accounts stolen by an info-stealer malware.

This data was found on a telegram channel known as Alien Textbase and contains almost 500 million unique website and email address pairings, 244 million new passwords and 199 million updated passwords in the database. The data also includes potentially sensitive information like names, usernames, IP addresses, physical addresses and phone numbers. This last data breach is kind of an update.

We might not have covered the original story but there's a company called Lee Enterprises. They're a US-based media company that owns and operates over 77 daily newspapers as well as 350 publications, digital media platforms and marketing services. Their primary focus is local news and advertising with a digital audience that reaches tens of millions of people monthly. The original story is that they were suffering some kind of cyber attack that was crippling operations but they wouldn't really say more. We now know that it was the Quillen-Quillen-Quillen ransomware gang who is threatening to leak the stolen data. This allegedly includes 120,000 files totaling over 350 gigabytes and includes government ID scans, NDAs or non-disclosure agreements, financial spreadsheets, contracts and agreements and quote other confidential documents.

And I think the publication date for that is like March 5th if they don't pay. And now the company news. The first three stories are all Google slash Android stories.

I'll just cover them really quickly here. First one, you might've heard about this. There was a new Android feature scanning your photos for sensitive content. Pretty much there's a service that's being installed on Android devices automatically.

I assume through Google Play services. It doesn't have an icon. It doesn't show up on the usual list of running apps and it makes it difficult for users to find and manage. They've reported that the safety core reinstall itself even during system updates or through Google Play services after uninstalling the service.

Google's come forward and said that sensitive content warnings doesn't allow Google access to the contents of your images nor does Google know that nudity may have been detected. Google also issued users that safety core performs its functions locally on the device without sending any data to external servers. There are instructions to disable it in the article so we highly recommend checking that out if you're on a device with Google Play services to see if this is something on your system. On this topic, Google has confirmed Gmail to ditch SMS code authentication. So they're planning to ditch SMS codes and replace them with QR codes. This will not impact more secure options like TOTP or pass keys.

It's unclear if this will impact requiring a phone number to verify new accounts. My assumption is yes, so they're just replacing the SMS side of it. And then finally, Qualcomm and Google have teamed up to offer eight years of Android updates. This extended support window only applies to Android devices with the latest Qualcomm chip sets.

The eight year support timeline will be extended to devices running the new Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile platform which powers devices like OnePlus 13 and the Galaxy S25. Later this year, the same policy will be applied to the company's new Snapdragon 8 and Snapdragon 7 series chips. And you can expect the same deal for at least the next five generations of Qualcomm Silicon.

These are their flagship chips. So don't expect this from like the budget phones yet. Maybe we'll see that on that end as well but we haven't seen confirmation of that yet. And the key takeaway here is for privacy and cybersecurity this move will make it easier for OEMs to release full Android OS updates even toward the end of a device's lifespan ensuring a more secure and long lasting Android experience for users. Our last company story comes from Adgard. It says Adgard launches nightly version of world's first Linux ad blocker.

So this protects all browsers and apps on your device while providing precise ad blocking using Adgard's filters, third-party filters and user rules. It also removes annoying elements such as pop-ups, live chat widgets, cookie consent notifications and app download banners. And it warns you about malicious websites with browsing security features and it also supports third-party filters and user rules. It is currently available for download via curl or GitHub and on the roadmap they are planning to add encrypted DNS and split tunneling. All right, research.

We have a few interesting stories this week. So the first one, a single default password exposes access to dozens of apartment buildings. This is from the door access control system, Enterphone Mesh.

And pretty much it uses a default password where it's anyone can use to remotely access door locks and elevator controls in dozens of buildings across the US and Canada. They discovered this and found 71 systems relying on these default shipped credentials. Exploiting the bug is as simple as taking the default password from the systems installation guide on the website and plugging the password into the internet facing login page on any affected building systems. Next up we have Apple's Find My Network exploited to let attackers silently track any Bluetooth device. So researchers at George Mason University have uncovered a vulnerability in Apple's Find My Network that allows hackers to silently track any Bluetooth device. The exploit which has been dubbed En route tag has a success rate of 90% and can be used to track devices with high accuracy.

The way the article summarized it, they said they have essentially found a way to turn any device such as a phone or a laptop into an air tag without the owner ever realizing it. And then after that, attackers can simply remotely track the location. So the researchers have alerted Apple and Apple has said they're gonna roll out a fix, but researchers warned that a fix may take years to roll out as not everyone will update their devices immediately. The attacker can do it all remotely from thousands of miles away with just a few dollars. Scientists are creating the world's first chip that can protect data in the age of quantum computing attacks.

And this was from Switzerland and they developed a new method called QS7001. This is to protect internet security against quantum computing attacks. This combines two quantum resistant encryption protocols, the lithium and Kyber, with a reduction in data transmission time to close the window of opportunity for attacks. Some of the details in the article, and I'm gonna be quoting it, "It is worth noting that this method does not prevent intercepted information from being copied and stored.

And at that point, a quantum computer would not be constrained by the reduced transmission time. However, what this does is narrow the window of opportunity for interception and prevent intercepted messages from being modified or misdirected." We're gonna move into the politics section. So the first one comes from Sweden, where Signal is threatening to pull out of Sweden. The Swedish government is proposing a bill that would require messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp to store user data, including message history for law enforcement purposes. This has sparked concerns from Signal CEO Meredith Whitaker who stated, quote, "If you create a vulnerability based on Swedish wishes, it would create a way to undermine our entire network.

Therefore, we will never introduce these back doors." The purpose of the bill, which may be passed next year, is for the police and security services to be able to request message history in retrospect for individual suspected crimes. The armed forces, on the other hand, are negative and write in a letter to the government that the proposal cannot be realized, quote, "without introducing vulnerabilities and back doors that can be exploited by third parties," unquote.

And then on a similar note, this one comes from Tudor. It says, "France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. We must stop them now." So I'm just gonna quote the relevant part of the article, because this is one of those blog posts that's designed for public awareness, so most of it is kind of explaining what is end-end encryption, why is the idea of a backdoor stupid, which we've covered that ad nauseam last week, quoting the article, "France is about to amend a bill against drug trafficking, the narco traffic law, which will force encrypted messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp to backdoor the encryption for being able to hand over decrypted chat messages of suspected criminals within 72 hours of the request. In order to enforce it, the text provides for, quote, "a fine of 1.5 million euros for natural persons and a fine of up to 2% of the annual turnover for legal persons," unquote.

The amendment has already been passed by the Senate and is now moving fast to the National Assembly. A judge has said that the US government violated privacy law by disclosing personal data to Doge, the new thing in the US. So they blocked Doge from accessing personal data held by the US Department of Education and Office of Personal Management, OPM. The ruling follows one in a different court that blocked Doge's access to Department of Treasury information.

The American Federation of Teachers and other plaintiffs have shown that education and OPM likely violated the Privacy Act by disclosing their personal information to Doge affiliates without their consent. Boardman is the judge behind this, and he granted a temporary restraining order that's in place until March 10th. She declined to extend the temporary restraining order to Department of Treasury data, but only because a different court issued a preliminary injunction blocking that access on Friday. This next one I think I included is more of a signal boost. Big Brother Watch condemns the UK's first use of citywide facial recognition in Cardiff. So the South Wales police are introducing, quote, "semi-permanent facial recognition cameras "across Cardiff City Center "during this year's Six Nations Rugby Internationals.

"Cameras will be positioned "at the main pedestrian entry points, "making it impossible for members of the public "to avoid the cameras. "Forces have previously deployed "live facial recognition vans equipped with one camera. Madeline Stone, who is a senior advocacy officer at Big Brother Watch said, quote, "embedding facial recognition surveillance "in a citywide CCTV network "represents a shocking expansion of police surveillance "and turns Cardiff into an Orwellian zone "of biometric surveillance."

Just for additional context, they say for the last three years, South Wales police has not made a single arrest due to its use of technology at sporting events. This technology specifically. Yet the force continues to waste taxpayer money on this rights abusing technology.

No other democracy in the world spies on its population with live facial recognition in this cavalier and chilling way. South Wales police must immediately stop this dystopian trial. So Apple's launched Age Assurance Tech as US states mull social media laws. So Apple said it will introduce a way for parents to share the age of a child with app developers without revealing sensitive information like birthdays or government identification numbers.

The move comes as a number of US state and federal lawmakers consider age verification laws for social media and other apps. That has set up a conflict in the tech industry over which party should be responsible for checking ages for users under 18, app stores or each individual app. As an alternative, Apple said it will roll out what it calls Age Assurance. Using it, parents will be able to input a child's age when setting up a child's account. That'll take us into the free and open source software section. And we have a bunch of stories, but they're all kind of short.

So the first one, Next Cloud Hub 10, your unified modular digital workspace. So there's a ton of new updates in this one, but the one they really buried the lead on and the stuff that's really relevant to this podcast, end to end encryption for calls and files in the browser. And then also there is a brute force protection that they're adding. And there was an extension for that in the past, but now again, they're adding it natively so you don't have to add this extension.

Just another little one to throw on there. They're also adding remote backups. So yeah, lots of new stuff in Next Cloud Hub. Definitely check that out.

Kagi is offering 30 days of pro for free without a credit card. They sent out an email. So I don't know if this is like you already had to have had an account and they're trying to lure you in, but they straight up say that they're like, look, we're so confident you're gonna like our pro service so much. We think you're gonna sign up. So free trial, no strings attached.

So for those of you who are interested in Kagi, they do have a free tier, but now you might be able to go ahead and try out this free trial, which they've never done before. So that's interesting. So this next story comes from Proton. It's not really super privacy related, but just something to keep you guys updated on. Proton has decided to ditch Mastodon in favor of Reddit. The link in the show notes goes to their Mastodon profile and it's not a post.

It's actually written in their bio. So for those of you who want to like see it for yourself, check the bio. And then our last two stories, the first one we'll take from Calix.

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