Comments on: Protect your Firefox Profile http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:49:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Luca http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/#comment-246881 Luca Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:25:04 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/#comment-246881 Hello, I'm a little "general-purpose" IT-consultant. One of my goals is to analyze and manage (may be improve) medium size business' everyday work. The first problem is that my customers hove no idea of the main series of risks. First: protect THEIR CUSTOMERS sensitive data. There are severe law restrictions to manage sensitive data in Italy, so my customers are continuously in front of high risk. In case of theft of hardwares they are completely exposed, but also when they are connected to the Internet. ("Firewall? What's a firewall? we have fire extinguishers!" or "Get rid of all those annoying popups or you can go home!"). I had already thought about this solution, TrueCrypt is my first choice for my own problems, but not so accessible to non-power-users... First problem: by default old Mozilla profile manager is hidden in mff, and has to be launched by command prompt in windows... Very old version of mozilla and netscape required password to access a profile, but I'm not able to find whether were there encryption of profiles' data. Does anyone know whether are there integrated solutions for password-protect and encrypt profiles in Firefox and Thunderbird? [The problem is almost identical in Opera (don't tell me nothing about M$IE)] I mean open-source, or if not, commercial too... Or we can go further: are there other browser I don't know yet? Thanks a lot, Luca Hello,
I’m a little “general-purpose” IT-consultant. One of my goals is to analyze and manage (may be improve) medium size business’ everyday work.
The first problem is that my customers hove no idea of the main series of risks.
First: protect THEIR CUSTOMERS sensitive data. There are severe law restrictions to manage sensitive data in Italy, so my customers are continuously in front of high risk.
In case of theft of hardwares they are completely exposed, but also when they are connected to the Internet. (”Firewall? What’s a firewall? we have fire extinguishers!” or “Get rid of all those annoying popups or you can go home!”).
I had already thought about this solution, TrueCrypt is my first choice for my own problems, but not so accessible to non-power-users…
First problem: by default old Mozilla profile manager is hidden in mff, and has to be launched by command prompt in windows…
Very old version of mozilla and netscape required password to access a profile, but I’m not able to find whether were there encryption of profiles’ data.
Does anyone know whether are there integrated solutions for password-protect and encrypt profiles in Firefox and Thunderbird?
[The problem is almost identical in Opera (don't tell me nothing about M$IE)]
I mean open-source, or if not, commercial too…
Or we can go further: are there other browser I don’t know yet?

Thanks a lot,

Luca

]]> By: Rado http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/#comment-84577 Rado Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:12:21 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/#comment-84577 Great trick and easy to put in practice. Great trick and easy to put in practice.

]]> By: netking http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/#comment-84259 netking Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:52:49 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/#comment-84259 If the goal is to protect yourself from childs or mother, this extension : https://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/profilepassword-en.html#PPFF can do the trick... It'll set a password to open your profile... But it's really easy to bypass, so not as reliable as TrueCrypt... If the goal is to protect yourself from childs or mother, this extension : https://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/profilepassword-en.html#PPFF
can do the trick… It’ll set a password to open your profile…

But it’s really easy to bypass, so not as reliable as TrueCrypt…

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