-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/31/2015 06:52 PM, Rubén Rodríguez wrote: > El sáb, 31-01-2015 a las 18:42 +0100, Antonio Trande escribió: >>> The Fedora package of IceCat contains altered user-agent string >>> which has "Fedora 21" in it. >>> >>> Such information can be easily used to identify a user (since >>> very tiny portion of the Internet population using Fedora 21). >>> >>> Please, consider changing it. >> >> I presume that who uses IceCat from Fedora then uses a Fedora >> system. However I think it's better use the Firefox User Agent >> Strings (http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Firefox/), just >> changing Firefox with IceCat. > > IceCat uses a spoofed UA string to improve on privacy. Please do > not modify it on redistribution, as it defeats the purpose of the > feature. > > The string should be: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) > Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0" It also matches the TorBrowser UA > string. >
This is a point of view that i hadn't considered. I will fix. @List Who needs to open a bug report about IceCat packaging on Fedora, please go to https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/icecat/bugs and use Open A New Bug (Fedora) (it's necessary a login in RedHat Bugzilla). Or mail to this list. - -- Antonio Trande mailto: sagitter 'at' fedoraproject 'dot' org http://fedoraos.wordpress.com/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sagitter GPG Key: 0x66E15D00 Check on https://keys.fedoraproject.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUzRgtAAoJEFyovWBm4V0AVIMQAKXcFhsCmGcPrBn6uiCZTmFz 1MoWEpDsFybydAa0h+ZCVPCAUdssVS5sOoSnUniQgyrBbb3M5rqgsVz5aC+49/8u X9OmjZBbE0rUUJxoJamuXuv7x/DkO5BGFqELbpscM5snQ7AZCck8XYVDbdLev5q0 nGWLB2iNNYj+HCj5lqSdMXT4YtXBOWgrdLj24m6BQnCXoUYItkgfBtfhkRSJbFnz ZMi3kaMwdhguuLCSzxGqACsxaYoy41+8rwMXIEnkYO6v3e3EbP0u2SkRlma1rwhU oUUAfedyI6LnRDSsTAwJuPWUGkSagzDVicGKDH1cXyHDnPD1ijmGPvcX6KvkKX3n i3KYpaSZtP/bNdIJwCxBtoQ+hCOzczdniKxK9RHYBqbTD5BKsm7EPcwSyDVgiRZk NfYeyzN4L8cMWzevecGN3BlSo2bDfogQ2zoNfXOPOxeB1DHO4hfwfIDzyieT0yku eaH3qDW9187ajHphSOmLIn6mOsDHyhNr+o8RXkdelBRaQhF1VIlaypkPwxhOk34p 2V8ljYpPBFS6oCSA80ClvSu1vr4akunTlaF00E+Sc48Y5EJDTKgw/oZjKtSDL84f epT0AT7HOrid4j1FtorKlzYEIaQ4nobvExIlGB33uzffmg/sSLiY+nfF0d91FjcP Mo4798Z9snN+0ShAbBc0 =bfMu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
