On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:17:38PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> 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).
What about SSL wrapping the connection, as suggested occasionally by
various people?
> 
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