SecurityEngineering/Jan2013WorkWeek/10-Contextual Identity

Thursday 1/17 at ~1 pm

Session Lead: Monica

Monica presents what she's got cooking, and we'll discuss directions and plans and how the rest of us can help out.

(See Monica's Slides: https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1e6944C7WhZg79y3uW6ae_ta6RSiMIdaLslRR5Aj-_Vc/edit)

Could deliver site categorization via DNS.

Maybe, Firefox could classify sites as they're visited and appropriately switch contexts.

One idea is a separate 'cookie jar'/app jar per context.

Lots of ways people may switch contexts -- do they only work during work hours, or do they context switch regularly? There are lots of questions about the buckets.

Is there something that would be really compelling (that doesn't require years of research)?

• Fast profile switching

What if, when you visit a certain site, it could switch your mode/profile/etc? User "seeds" our classifier with certain sites and classes, then we can use those as triggers.

A site like google.com is a challenge - it can be used in many different contexts. (especially due to search terms in querystring)