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How is this any better or different than one of the other cloud providers? I read nothing about self-hosting this, nothing about end-to-end encryption, nothing about Persona.

I understand Mozilla is in a tight place with no access to iOS, little market share in mobile in general and the new walled gardens erected by Google, Apple, FB and soon Microsoft. But simply playing copy cat and catchup does not cut it.

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Click on "same browser-based encryption". It's a link to an earlier blog post where they explain the encryption methods used in Firefox Sync. It mentions end-to-end encryption, too.

As Mozilla is a US-based organization, is anyone afraid of the NSA/USG commandeering Mozilla to setup pen-register/password-interception a la Lavabit?

Only a couple of months ago comments like mine would have been passed off as tin-foil conspiracy. Now, I think everyone's sense of normal is now tightly wrapped in tin-foil, encased in lead.

Opposite to Lavabit, Mozilla can't decrypt your data, so I can't see this happening, unless they change the open source client code without anyone noticing.

The "change the open source client code without anyone noticing" attack vector is important too: https://brendaneich.com/2014/01/trust-but-verify/

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