[HTTPS-Everywhere] Chrome 2012.5.1 ("may day" beta) released

Peter Eckersley pde at eff.org
Tue May 1 17:51:04 PDT 2012


https://www.eff.org/files/https-everywhere-chrome-2012.5.1.crx

Changelog:

chrome-2012.5.1
  * The May Day Chromium Beta Release
  * Ship 886 new rulesets (thanks mostly to Negres!)
  * Fix two downgrade attacks that might allow attackers to deny HTTPS
    Everywhere protection for cookies on some domains.
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5676
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2199
  * More efficient ruleset storage shrinks the .crx download by a factor of 
    about 4 (thanks fauxfaux)
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5275
  * Disable buggy rulesets: IBM, Scribd, Wunderground, ReadWriteWeb,
    Pastebin.ca 
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5344
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5435
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5630
  * Ruleset fixes: Debian, Kohls, Malwarebytes, Yandex, Wikipedia, Mises.org,
                   OpenDNS, Wizards of the Coast, Lenovo, Barnes and Noble,
                   Pastebin.ca
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5509
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5491
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5303
  * Numerous other improvements, fixes, and exciting new bugs :)

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Peter Eckersley                            pde at eff.org
Technology Projects Director      Tel  +1 415 436 9333 x131
Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993




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