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README.md

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## Privacy provided
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Websites can request an access to your location through browser defined methods. Lockation provides privacy within a defined area by adding noise to your real position, making it less precise. The privacy level defined in options determines the amount of noise added to your real location. A noised position is privacy perserving, however location based services provided by websites would be less useful.
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Websites can request an access to your location through browser defined methods. Lockation provides privacy within a defined area by adding noise to your real position, making it less precise. The privacy level defined in options determines the amount of noise added to your real location. A noised position is privacy preserving, however location based services provided by websites would be less useful.
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**Note :** Lockation does not cover websites which detect your location based on your IP address, attributed by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
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## Theoretical attacks
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|Attack|Description|Protection|Version|
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|Brute force|Generate too many fake locations which would be centered around the real one. Could be blocked through the cache feature.||0.0.2|
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|Knowledge background|External data can be used by malicious websites to guess the real location within the protection area.|||
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## Permissions
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- `geolocation` : Get the real position and add noise over it
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- `storage` : Store and retrieve extension settings
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- `https://*/*` : Access websites visited and overwrite functions requesting the location
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**Note :** Lockation runs locally in the browser and does not send informations to the network.
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## Development
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> Instructions to install the extension manually
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manifest.json

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"name": "__MSG_extName__",
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"version": "0.0.1",
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"version": "0.0.2",
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"manifest_version": 2,
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"description": "__MSG_extDescription__",
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"homepage_url": "https://github.com/Seao/lockation",

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