Tell HN: Mitigate Security Vulnerability in Tails 5.0

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4 years ago

Mitigate Security Vulnerability in Tails 5.0 : https://tails.boum.org/security/prototype_pollution/index.en.html

>We recommend that you stop using Tails until the release of 5.1 (May 31)

  if you use Tor Browser for sensitive information

 (passwords, private messages, personal information, etc.).<*

>Security level

You can change the security level of Tor Browser to disable browser features as a trade-off between security and usability.

For example, you can set the security level to Safest to disable JavaScript completely.

The security level is set to Standard by default which gives the most usable experience.<*

https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/Tor_Browser/index.en.html#security-level

You may also like to completely disable JavaScript by;

  about:config

Search preference name java

set;

  javascript.enabled to false

  javascript.options.asmjs to false