Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla wrote: > Hi, > > We have a lot of projects over at mozdev.org, and I was wondering if you > know about link fingerprinting already, what it can do and what not. > Would you like to use it, yes or no? > > We asked 500 companies, and only 2 even heared of it, none of them plan
s/heared/heard > to invest in Gervase Markham's (Mozilla Corporation) proposal because > they just look at it as another marketing tool to level the browser war > a notch up (not mine words). > > Do you agree that *if* your project is the only one, or part of a small > group that not support/use link fingerprinting, that your users might > see this as a weak point? Wouldn't that, eventually, make people > believe that you don't care, or that your work is not so safe after all? > Might be a risk to install? > > My personal opinion is that link fingerprinting can help (no Gervase, > we're not the against it) if implemented right, not by deleting my > downloads, by default, after the download has finished! downloads, by default (when there is a hash mismatch), after the download has finished! > But what do you think? -- Michael Vincent van Rantwijk - MultiZilla Project Team Lead - XUL Boot Camp Staff member - iPhone Application Developer _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
