Firefox3.1/Geolocation Security Review

Overview

Provide Geolocation to the DOM.

http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html

Security and Privacy

• uses info bar to ask the user if it is okay to expose location
• has a concept of reducing precision of location exposed.

Exported APIs

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/public/idl/geolocation/nsIDOMNavigatorGeolocation.idl#48

Exposed off of the navigator object

Module interactions

DOM / JS