Peter Lairo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is so easy nowadays to accidentally install software (e.g., user
> ignorance, viri, piggyback software, Micro$oft) that ANY such program
> could access the URL list in Mozilla (correct me if I'm wrong) - not
If you're going to worry about "accidentally installed unwanted software that
does bad things", worrying about the privacy of some data stored by Mozilla is
the ABSOLUTE LEAST of your worries. A person running around randomly running
software is going to quickly find their system destroyed - although that would
certainly protect their privacy.
If rogue software is going to make it onto your machine, then it makes
absolutely no different what Mozilla does. If this software is geared toward
violating your privacy, then there are a billion and one ways it can do so,
and poking through Mozilla's data structures is certainly not the easiest.
Your worries are akin to "if someone I don't want gets into my house without
my permission, they could read the stuff I keep in my desk". Well, duh! Are
you going to worry about that, or are you going to worry about the huge pile
of other nasty things they could do? And if you LET them in in the first
place, "accidentally" or not, who's damned fault is it, anyway?
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-> Solaris Snob and general NOCMonkey
