Or how to avoid getting locked-out of another Google Account
This guide will describe how to setup a persistent browser (for Evil Corp) that’s isolated in a sandbox (with firejail) and forced to use a SOCKS5 proxy to retain a static IP address (using proxychains)
Have you ever been locked out of your own account, and then got an email for your service provider annoyingly letting you know that they’ve “blocked a login attempt — for your protection?“
There’s countless reports of frustrated users who have permanently lost access to their own gmail accounts because of Google’s faulty “fraud protection” systems that locked the account owner out of their own account, due to false-positives.
Problem
Especially the past 10 years, large corporations have been using machine learning anomaly detection systems on their login pages. Unfortunately, sometimes this is (ab)used to have priority over credential authentication challenges.
Even if you enter your username, password, and 2FA credentials correctly on the very first login attempt, you may get locked out of your own account because you “look different”
This article is a part 3/3 of a series describing how to setup an Ephemeral Firefox session as a Site-Specific Browser. The ultimate goal is to be able to have a self-destructing browsing session that can only access a single company’s services, such as Google or Facebook.
Part 1/3: Ephemeral Firefox in Ubuntu Part 2/3: Ephemeral Firefox with Extensions Part 3/3: Ephemeral Firefox as a Site-Specific Browser
After setting up the Site-Specific Ephemeral Firefox Browser, you can then blacklist services designated to your Site-Specific browser(s) (such as Google or Facebook) from your main browser. This significantly improves your ability to browse the internet without your activity being tracked by these companies — leaving your sensitive data vulnerable to being stolen by hackers.
Michael Altfield
Hi, I’m Michael Altfield. I write articles about opsec, privacy, and devops ➡
I recently posted about how to create a sandboxed firefox profile to compartmentalize (and shred) your firefox browsing history in an Ephemeral Firefox session. But so far I’ve only covered how to create a simple vanilla firefox profile. What if you want your Ephemeral Firefox to include a few basic extensions?
This post will cover how to add extensions to your Ephemeral Firefox profile.
Part 1/3: Ephemeral Firefox in Ubuntu Part 2/3: Ephemeral Firefox with Extensions Part 3/3: Ephemeral Firefox as a Site-Specific Browser Michael Altfield
Hi, I’m Michael Altfield. I write articles about opsec, privacy, and devops ➡
As some mega websites deploy APIs that are used nearly ubiquitously on most of the Internet’s websites (I’m looking at you Facebook & Google), I’ve begun to compartmentalize my browsers to “jail” specific website usage to a single, sandboxed browser (profile). This is sometimes referred to as a Site-Specific Browser (SSB).
Besides making sure that your SSB is isolated in that it cannot access your regular browser’s data (a configuration I plan to document in the future), it’s essential to block all network traffic from/to your SSB and all websites, except a whitelist. Unfortunately, getting block-all-then-whitelist functionality in uBlock Origin was annoyingly not documented, so I decided to publish it.
If you want uBlock Origin to block all traffic, add the following line to the textbox in your “My filters” tab of uBlock’s Dashboard.
*.* Michael Altfield
Hi, I’m Michael Altfield. I write articles about opsec, privacy, and devops ➡
