On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 07:22 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > Hi all, > I'm about to give an interview on the ABC concerning the EFT Code of > Conduct. I realised that I am ignorant on the following question: > > When a customer connects for on-line banking, is it possible to > identify the system that the customer is using? Can they tell it is > Windows 98, XP, etc? > > Thanks for any feedback on this. > > Alan
Hi Alan, It is possible to identify the OS that a browser is based on, as this is part of the information the browser sends to the server. However in browsers outside of IE this is spoofable. -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Open Source On The Air A LocalFOSS Production http://www.localfoss.org irc: #localfoss on irc.freenode.net
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