On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:46:44PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: < > > > We all agree that we cannot ask most all users to install browser > > plugins, because maintaining such for X browsers on Y platforms is not > > realistic. But most users probably don't give a hoot about complicated > > attacks against their anonymity - wouldn't be easier to just make a > > plugin for mozilla, and referr the small minority that do care (and who > > are mostly computer litterate) to that? > Mozilla is relatively easy to configure to be safe - turn off scripting, > set the option to only allow images from the origin server. But it does > have one really annoying anonymity-risking feature, which is that it > feeds timed out requests into google, and I haven't found any way to > stop this. I haven't looked at the code much though.
I think desired behavior would be something like the way browsers treat SSL pages - warning whenever it is loads a page besides the current. This would require a plugin, but it can't be hard (I even think an old IE plugin did it some time the past). -- Oskar Sandberg oskar at freenetproject.org _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
