And it came to pass that Peter Lairo wrote:
> Bamm Gabriana wrote:
>> What's the difference between revealing your IP address to
>> 20 servers (without netscape) and 21 servers (including
>> netscape)?
>
> Maybe you right and I'm being a little too paranoid. I do
> see a differnce though. Netscape has access to my PC and
> could therefore quite easily "slip" my personal info in with
> the IP and search request. Maybe not now, but in 3 months
> when this issue has settled. Who is going to detect a
> 1-liner change in their "private" part of the mozilla code?
>
> Ooops, I'm being paranoid again (or is it just realistically
> cautious, given all the unethical behavior going on on the
> net)? ;)
>
NEtscape does not in fact do any of this - you are exhibiting an
extremely unrasonable level of paranoia.
ALL that happens when you use "Search" is exactly what would
happen if you click on a banner ad at a website; a billing
record for the service is created. The only difference is that
this "banner" is the "Search" button in Netscape instead of a
banner on a webpage.
--
}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
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