Devel meeting minutes May 14

[Ruben]

    Libor's team published a minor release with new parameters in the
manifest, and other small fixes. The main progress is that they are in
the middle of the submission of the thesis of bachelor and PhD, which
brings possibilities of more items being included in the project. Should
be completed next week.

    Added code that incorporates form locking, so if a user wants to
work on a form that then needs to be transmuted, you can block other
scripts so 3rd parties cannot access the DOM. The code needs to be
reviewed, some parts don't work on chrome, others on Firefox, and there
are issues with permissions. It is in proof of concept stage.

    Test report from students for code that can detect that
fingerprinting is taking place, and can stop the communication to the
server. There were concerns that it would break pages, but it doesn't
seem to be the case in testing. It does often break login sites, as they
often use fingerprinting. It can be merged soon, but it needs review.
There should be a feature so it allows fingerprinting on the login page
of a domain, but not on other pages. This would also need changes in the
GUI.

    Giorgio working on finishing his merge, aiming to finish
today/tomorrow. Incorporating a set of changes coming from JSR for Brave
compatibility. With this, aiming to have windows and workers patched by
next week. Libor would review and merge, so then we can incorporate the
anti-fingerprinting features on top of this change.

    Ruben will be sending a GUI mock-up for the design meeting next
week, then build on that and the wrap-up of the current merges to
establish a more formal calendar for the next 3 months so we have a good
amount of room to meet the NLNet deadline (end of October).


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Ruben Rodriguez | Chief Technology Officer, Free Software Foundation
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