Paul: A few years ago a similar idea was brought up here to attend an IBM shareholders meeting and complain about the downtime on IBMLINK.
Shortly after that uptime improved dramatically. Sometimes complaining ion here does work (not most of the time as the product people are so insulated) that probably nothing happened. On the other side those of us can remember the nightmare of the VSAM super fix tape. That was nailed into IBM's hide at GUIDE/SHARE and that did get fixed. Ed ________________________________ From: Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 11:56:19 AM Subject: Re: SR might be palatable if (part 2, opening a new PMR) - of interest to anyone security conscious On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:02:27 -0500, Norbert Friemel wrote: >On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:17:33 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote: > >>>safebrowsing.clients.google.com: Firefox uses Google's "Safe Browsing API" >>>http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/ >>>Uncheck "Block reported attack sites/web forgeries" in Tools -> Options -> >>>Security >>okay, so in order to block firefox gives control to google first?!? In any >>case, I did not allow any cookies to be set. > >Yes. From the URL above: "Phishing and Malware Protection works by checking >the sites that you visit against lists of reported phishing and malware >sites. These lists are automatically downloaded and updated every 30 minutes >or so ..." Someone has to do it. >"... In both cases, existing cookies you have from google.com, our list >provider, may also be sent. ..." > But it sounds as if Barbara uses Firefox only to contact IBM. She probably wishes she could whitelist ibm.com and block everything else. Is there a basic design conflict between use of cookies and redirection for load balancing? It seems wrong that the cookies should belong to, e.g. www-42.ibm.com and not www.ibm.com. >BTW Another reason to contact google is geolocation: >http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/ > Does IBM need to employ geolocation? For multilingual support? For contract validation? Who does geolocation? Google? Skyhook/Loki? Other (specify). At one point, Firefox requested confirmation when Google Maps (honoring my click) requested geolocation. I haven't seen that lately -- it must have memorized my response. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
