Re: MOZILLA HAS BUILT-IN SPYWARE - VOTE AGAINST IT HERE !

[DeMoN_LaG]

Olaf Titz wrote:

>>It seems that Mozilla now contains code that copies each url you visit
>>into a OS readable textfile that can then be read by anyone on the
>>internet (particulary Media Matrix). This seems to mean that anyone
>>
> 
> You're not helping the cause the least by presenting such radical
> distortions of the facts.
> 
> The only problem about that code (which _is_ a serious one IMHO) is the
> way it went into the source tree. Not what it does or how it works.
> Of course the browser writes the URLs into a text file - the history,
> but that has nothing to do with the bug you cite.
> 
> Olaf
> 

And um, EVERY file is readable by the OS, otherwise you couldn't do 
anything with it