Notes

UPDATE: EFF Applauds New Electronic Privacy Bill That Tells the Government: Come Back With a Warrant!
 

As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act adopted in 1986. At that time, e-mail left on a third-party server for six months was considered to be abandoned, and thus enjoyed less privacy protection. However, the law demands warrants for the authorities to seize e-mail from a person’s hard drive.

via Justice Dept. to Congress: Don’t Saddle 4th Amendment on Us | Threat Level | Wired.com.

Edit prefs.js file located in Firefox’s profile directory to:

• Stop Referrers
• Stop all known communication with Google
• Disable SafeBrowsing
• Disable cache. (If you want a few cookies for your favourite sites, set browser.cache.disk.enable to true and then back to false when done).
• Stop writing to disk and instead only write to memory.
  *Accepts no Third party cookies and will not accept any new ones while browser.cache.disk.enable is false
• Turn off geolocation.
• Turn off DNS prefetching
• Turn off content prefetching
• Remove all application handlers
• Remove address bar searching and url making
• Remove google as default keyword search and disables that search
• Disable Download manager and form retention.
• Turn of javascript

Disabling javascript, referers and cookies completely is probably a bad idea (many trusted website can become unusable), one should probably use NoScript, ModifyHeaders or CookieSafe add-ons insteads.

# Mozilla User Preferences

/* Do not edit this file.
 *
 * If you make changes to this file while the application is running,
 * the changes will be overwritten when the application exits.
 *
 * To make a manual change to preferences, you can visit the URL about:config
 * For more information, see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs
 */

user_pref("app.update.lastUpdateTime.addon-background-update-timer", 1287207323);
user_pref("app.update.lastUpdateTime.blocklist-background-update-timer", 1287207586);
user_pref("app.update.lastUpdateTime.microsummary-generator-update-timer", 1287207396);
user_pref("app.update.lastUpdateTime.places-maintenance-timer", 1287206929);
user_pref("app.update.lastUpdateTime.search-engine-update-timer", 1287287126);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false);
user_pref("browser.cache.offline.enable", false);
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.0.title", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.0.type", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.0.uri", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.1.title", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.1.type", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.1.uri", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.2.title", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.2.type", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.2.uri", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.3.title", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.3.type", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.3.uri", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.4.title", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.4.type", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.4.uri", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.5.title", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.5.type", "");
user_pref("browser.contentHandlers.types.5.uri", "");
user_pref("browser.download.manager.retention", 0);
user_pref("browser.formfill.enable", false);
user_pref("browser.history_expire_days", 0);
user_pref("browser.history_expire_days.mirror", 0);
user_pref("browser.history_expire_days_min", 0);
user_pref("browser.history_expire_sites", 0);
user_pref("browser.migration.version", 1);
user_pref("browser.places.importBookmarksHTML", false);
user_pref("browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion", 2);
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.malware.reportURL", "");
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.gethashURL", "");
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.keyURL", "");
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.lookupURL", "");
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.name", "");
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.reportErrorURL", "");
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.reportGenericURL", "");
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.reportMalwareErrorURL", "");
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.reportMalwareURL", "");
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.reportPhishURL", "");
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.reportURL", "");
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.updateURL", "");
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.warning.infoURL", "");
user_pref("browser.search.defaultenginename", "");
user_pref("browser.search.order.1", "");
user_pref("browser.search.order.2", "");
user_pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", true);
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "rv:1.9.2.10");
user_pref("extensions.enabledItems", "langpack-en-GB@firefox-3.6.ubuntu.com:3.6,ubufox@ubuntu.com:0.9rc2,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.6.10");
user_pref("extensions.lastAppVersion", "3.6.10");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.defaultHandlersVersion", "");https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967/
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.irc.0.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.irc.0.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.irc.1.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.irc.1.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.irc.2.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.irc.2.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.irc.3.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.irc.3.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.ircs.0.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.ircs.0.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.ircs.1.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.ircs.1.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.ircs.2.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.ircs.2.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.ircs.3.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.ircs.3.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.mailto.0.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.mailto.0.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.mailto.1.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.mailto.1.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.mailto.2.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.mailto.2.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.mailto.3.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.mailto.3.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.webcal.0.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.webcal.0.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.webcal.1.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.webcal.1.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.webcal.2.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.webcal.2.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.webcal.3.name", "");
user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.webcal.3.uriTemplate", "");
user_pref("general.smoothScroll", true);
user_pref("general.useragent.extra.firefox", "Firefox");
user_pref("general.useragent.vendor", "Windows NT 6.1");
user_pref("general.useragent.vendorComment", "");
user_pref("general.useragent.vendorSub", "");
user_pref("general.warnOnAboutConfig", false);
user_pref("geo.enabled", false);
user_pref("geo.wifi.uri", "");
user_pref("idle.lastDailyNotification", 1287209609);
user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.browser.cache", "UTF-8");
user_pref("javascript.enabled", false);
user_pref("keyword.URL", "");
user_pref("keyword.enabled", false);
user_pref("layout.spellcheckDefault", 2);
user_pref("network.cookie.cookieBehavior", 1);
user_pref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true);
user_pref("network.dns.disablePrefetch", true);
user_pref("network.http.sendRefererHeader", 0);
user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false);
user_pref("places.last_vacuum", 1287209609);
user_pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.cache", false);
user_pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.cookies", false);
user_pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.sessions", false);
user_pref("privacy.sanitize.didShutdownSanitize", true);
user_pref("privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs", true);
user_pref("privacy.sanitize.sanitizeOnShutdown", true);
user_pref("urlclassifier.gethashnoise", 0);
user_pref("urlclassifier.gethashtables", "");
user_pref("urlclassifier.updatecachemax", 0);

Sources: Lock Down Firefox & #1227136 – Pastie.

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