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privacy concerns
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* sending e-mails with technical instructions on how to fix or mitigate crashes, and espcially instructions that involve downloading and installing software is open to impersonation, and phishing. we need build in ways for users to authenticate that the message came from mozilla and that the same instructions are available on an "offical" mozilla hosted website.
* sending e-mails with technical instructions on how to fix or mitigate crashes, and espcially instructions that involve downloading and installing software is open to impersonation, and phishing. we need build in ways for users to authenticate that the message came from mozilla and that the same instructions are available on an "offical" mozilla hosted website.
* <bsmedberg> We need to be very careful with the about:crashes changes in order to preserve user privacy. The webservice calls have the ability to correlate a user with multiple crash reports: we probably should not perform them automatically, and should probably avoid sending any cookies over the wire when we do make the requests.


=== some numbers ===
=== some numbers ===
Confirmed users, Bureaucrats and Sysops emeriti
1,217

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