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Mozilla-based browsers expose people's Web surfing data .
read this:
http://www.pcflank.com/news170902.htm
This is an old bug, and has already been discussed. As far as I have been able to tell so far there is no security problem with this, unless there is already other security flaws with how data is transmitted.
It's already been discussed on the devs list, and in the "Development" forum. In regards to the flaw, it really shouldn't be too much of an ongoing concern because as most people realise, web authors probably won't bother tarketing the "Elite 1%". It's far easier for them to target IE security flaws, because of the sheer number of IE users out there, especially ill-informed ones at that.
We'll make sure this is covered in the next release.
That's interesting, but I've had my onUnload JS events turned off via Proxomitron the whole time. Isn't it pretty common for web servers to get referer data from your browser, though? When I had websites on Yahoo Geocities it was easy to see which site any given IE surfer had last visited before they accessed my site & I could even match them with particular IP addresses, among other things.
> Isn't it pretty common for web servers to
> get referer data from your browser, though?
yes, but it's only supposed to point backwards, not forwards.
General discussion about K-Meleon
security problem
Posted by:
BVV
Date: September 17, 2002 04:31PM
Mozilla-based browsers expose people's Web surfing data .
read this:
http://www.pcflank.com/news170902.htm
Re: security problem
Posted by:
Jason Foss
Date: September 17, 2002 06:53PM
This is an old bug, and has already been discussed. As far as I have been able to tell so far there is no security problem with this, unless there is already other security flaws with how data is transmitted.
Re: security problem
Posted by:
Al.
Date: September 17, 2002 09:35PM
It's already been discussed on the devs list, and in the "Development" forum. In regards to the flaw, it really shouldn't be too much of an ongoing concern because as most people realise, web authors probably won't bother tarketing the "Elite 1%". It's far easier for them to target IE security flaws, because of the sheer number of IE users out there, especially ill-informed ones at that.
Re: security problem
Posted by:
Andrew
Date: September 17, 2002 09:50PM
We'll make sure this is covered in the next release.
Re: security problem
Posted by:
Steven
Date: September 17, 2002 10:05PM
That's interesting, but I've had my onUnload JS events turned off via Proxomitron the whole time. Isn't it pretty common for web servers to get referer data from your browser, though? When I had websites on Yahoo Geocities it was easy to see which site any given IE surfer had last visited before they accessed my site & I could even match them with particular IP addresses, among other things.
Re: security problem
Posted by:
po
Date: September 18, 2002 02:38AM
> Isn't it pretty common for web servers to
> get referer data from your browser, though?
yes, but it's only supposed to point backwards, not forwards.
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