MozPETs: Mozilla Privacy Enhancement Technologies
The goal of the MozPETs project is to produce a web browser and mail client with
enhanced privacy and security features.
Our prototype is based on the Mozilla Suite, and
we plan to add as many privacy enhancement technologies (PETs) as
possible.
It is under heavy development, highly experimental and not recommended for end users yet.
Features
MozPETs contains a number of changes and extensions to provide better privacy protection for the user. Compared to the stock Mozilla Suite shipped by Mozilla.org, our current build contains the following changes and additions:
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Secure Preferences:
Mozilla contains several hundert preferences (check the Preferential project for a list). We modified some settings to have a more privacy-friendly default value. For example, MozPETs does not accept third-party cookies at all and treats all other cookies as session cookies. -
MozJAP:
MozJAP is a wrapper to integrate a proxy for anonymous web access with Mozilla. It supports JAP and Tor. -
MozPAw:
MozPAw checks the current page for potential harmful content like web bugs. The result is displayed as an emoticon to alarm the user if a web site make intensive use of tracking technologies. -
MozBlock:
Allows the user to block third party content (e.g. webbugs) embedded within web pages to reduce cross-side clickstream tracking by advertisers. MozBlock is based on the famous AdBlock extension. -
Tracknosis:
Tracknosis is a tool that reveals cross-side tracking activities used by advertisers. -
iJournal2:
The iJournal allows the user to keep track of personal information he has given to web sites. If the user enters sensitive information (e.g. his name), the iJournal intercepts the transmission and tries to profile the web site by analyzing its P3P policy, SSL certificate and WHOIS entry. The data is stored for later analysis. -
EnigMail:
Add PGP Support to Mozilla Mail. EnigMail is developed by the EnigMail project. Please check their pages for more info on EnigMail (and use the original EnigMail if you want to use it in production :). -
Pemar:
Send e-mail anonymously through the remailer Mixmaster.
Downloads, Source Code and Installation Instructions
Check the installation and build instructions for more information.
Mailing List
If you have any comments, suggestions, or requests please send a mail to our mailing list. You can subscribe to the mailing list from the list info page. Please check the mailing list archives before posting to see if your question has been discussed before. To post to the list, send an e-mail to mozpets-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net.
Contact
MozPETs evolved from a research project at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact mozpets-discuss mailing list.
MozPETs is hosted on