On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 08:13 -0700, bruce wrote: > the issue of the FF security measures (and others) is that the data on > the URLs you visit might go back to a 3rd party company (IE google), > > google claims that they're not going to do anything with the data, but > there's nothing to stop them if they do. Like we believe that... (about a company who's stated aim was to database everything). I think it's more of a concern what they'd do with it, rather than worrying *if* they'll do something with it. Unfortunately, there's a lot of services which aren't secure (e.g. they put *your* info into the URI, where someone else seems like you if they use the same URI). That's not the sort of thing you want ending up being indexed by a search engine. And it's not something that most of the general public would understand. > it would be nice if google/firefox actually would spell all of this > out, as well as make the default "off", but it's easier for them to > have the user have to opt out. > > i didn't discover this, untill i was looking at the packets/traffic > from my FF browser and got curious about the "google" traffic when i > wasn't using google!! I thought it was pretty obvious what it'd have to do, to work. I always go through the browser preferences of new installs, and most updates. I found an option about checking websites and it's clear that it'd either have to come with black/white lists (not practical), or ask some service for its thoughts on what you were about to access. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
