Marcin Januchta wrote:
> Dear GOD!!! If you're so scared tyhrow away thewhole comp, build
> yourself some kind of bunker and stay in it!!!!
Another black and white thinker :(
> 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?
The OS can only report the URL's that Mozilla gives it . I want Mozilla
to NOT provide these URL's - or at least not make it even easier than it
already is.
>
> 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
>>
>>
>
>
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Regards,
Peter Lairo
