> One other reason is that there are other software (shareware/addware) > which integrate as a part of browser and collect information about which > pages user visits and send that information forward. This all can happen > without user knowing about it and it seems that this kind of behaviour is > getting more common every day. I assume they don't use that information to > gain information about the particular user but statistically see what kind > of things are used a lot but still there are risks there.
That's a very good point. There are a lot of browser addons that totally ruin your anonymity. Such as Alexa and the Real Comet Cursor. I worry about Netscape 6, actually, because it has a "related links" window, which means its transmitting URLs to a central server which has a database of related links. > Yeah.. and so why do we even bother to make this work with Windows then? > IMO security should be transparent since most users aren't able to > understand how the system works but still they can use it. This same > applies to many other things like a television... you might not understand > how it works but you can still use it. Real security can't be transparent. If you don't understand how it works, you will mess up and give something away. That said, we should make it as transparent as possible. :-) _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
