On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Mike Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake .FUF ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Incidentally, this was filed as Firefox Bug > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405652. They have a fix > in the 3.0 branch. I requested backport into FF2.0.
It looks like the change just makes it send the current time. While that should be an improvement, It's not at all clear to me that the privacy issues of this are fixed. Many many users do not have clocks which are accurate enough that second level quantization hides their skew. I've successfully used remote client time to identify trouble making users on IRC (though on IRC I had the benefit of the returned time being local time rather than GMT). If the world didn't end with the client sending uptime .. could perhaps it send some other value?
