yourself some kind of bunker and stay in it!!!! Please tell me what kind
of system are you using? Win maybe? Well guess what: I've read in Chip
and PC WorldComputer that there are some particular files on system that
allow anyone able to read data stored on your HD to know everything
about what you've done on your PC throughout several past days, what
sites have you visited and so on and on.
I've checked for those files and they DO exist. SO the big, bad SYSTEM
already knows what you're doing... pity.
Anyway - if saying that having a list of visited WWW pages is
something that may be a threat to you, then what about address books? O
cache storage?
Think about it.
JTK wrote:
> Peter Lairo wrote:
>
>> Response on other newsgroup by [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>> -----------------------------------
>> This is not true.
>>
>
> You're saying below that it basically is.
>
>> Mozilla copies every URL you visit into an OS-readable *textfield* (in
>
>
> And what's a *textfield*? Does it reside in a *textfile* somewhere?
>
>> the same way that other browsers use them for their URL bars by default.
>
>
> I'm guessing here, but I'd wager a 12-pack of Dewskis that IE uses the
> registry for such functionality.
>
>> This cannot be read by "anyone on the Internet" but can be read by any
>> application running on your machine, in the same way as any other native
>> textfield.
>>
>
> "Native textfield"? What, pray tell, would that be exactly? I'm not
> aware of any "Textfield API" on Why2K, POSIX systems, the Mac, etc.
>
>
>> If you choose to download and install the MediaMetrix client, it will
>> read this information. It could also get it by directly monitoring your
>> network stream, but that's more of a pain for them.
>>
>
> Ok, what is this "MediaMetrix" client? A third party deal, or an AOL
> deal? Regardless, seeing as Mozilla doesn't even register on the usage
> charts, seems pretty stupid to be to be trying to gather any sort of
> statistics from the handful of Mozilla users floating around.
>
>
>> It is true that it should not be in the Mozilla tree,
>
>
> What shouldn't be? This "MediaMetrix" client? Or the "textfield"
> functionality?
>
>> but there is no
>> need to get so sensationalist about it.
>>
>
> Well, seeing as it takes over a year to get a simple minimize button on
> the download dialog...
>
>
>> Gerv
>
