[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
Greediy companies are not interested in formatting your hard drive or to
whom you are sending jucy love leters - there is no profit in that.
There IS, however, a large profit in having a *detailed analysis* of
peoples browsing habbits. Hence, there IS motivation to ascertain the
URLs from Mozilla in sneaky and unethical ways.
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Regards,
Peter Lairo
