Re: Security Concerns in Mozilla

[Jacek Piskozub]

Chris Hoess wrote:

> Except that the address book, and the information in it tying together 
> email addresses, street addresses, names, and various other personal data 
> seems like it would be just as useful a thing to snatch for marketing.  
> Shall we remove the address book, too?  It's clearly a significant privacy 
> risk...

You can avoid writing such details in addressbook (actually I think most 
people never bothers). You cannot avoid opening URLs if you want to see 
the Web pages.

So there is a workaround for the address book problem but not for the 
spyware problem.

Jacek