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Brave over Tor leaks time zone #24090

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suncloudsmoon opened this issue Jul 17, 2022 · 3 comments
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Brave over Tor leaks time zone #24090

suncloudsmoon opened this issue Jul 17, 2022 · 3 comments
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closed/duplicate Issue has already been reported feature/tor/leakproofing Eliminating unexpected ways that someone using Tor might be unmasked. OS/Desktop privacy/discussed Discussed in privacy confab privacy

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@suncloudsmoon
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suncloudsmoon commented Jul 17, 2022

Description

When using Brave over Tor, It supposedly leaks sensitive information, such as the time zone offset and time zone.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Click on "new private window with Tor"
  2. Go to https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
  3. Once the website is loaded, click on "Test your Browser" button.

Actual result:

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Expected result:

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Reproduces how often:

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave | 1.41.96 Chromium: 103.0.5060.114 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision | a1c2360c5b02a6d4d6ab33796ad8a268a6128226-refs/branch-heads/5060@{#1124}
OS | Windows 11 Version 21H2 (Build 22000.795)

Version/Channel Information:

  • Can you reproduce this issue with the current release?
    Yes
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel?
    N/A
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel?
    N/A

Other Additional Information:

  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
    No
  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
    No
  • Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?
    N/A

Miscellaneous Information:

N/A

@neeythann
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this might be related to #8574

@diracdeltas diracdeltas added the feature/tor/leakproofing Eliminating unexpected ways that someone using Tor might be unmasked. label Jul 17, 2022
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@rebron not sure if this is a regression or not. anyway #15247 also leaks some of this info.

setting lang to the most common lang (english) might be too inconvenient for most users but i think we can set this one to UTC by default without too much inconvience

@ShivanKaul ShivanKaul added the privacy/discussed Discussed in privacy confab label Jul 19, 2022
@ShivanKaul ShivanKaul added the closed/duplicate Issue has already been reported label Mar 10, 2023
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dupe of #27501

@ShivanKaul ShivanKaul closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Mar 10, 2023
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