Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote: > I guess you've downloaded it from > http://toolbar.netcraft.com/install/netcrafttoolbar.xpi and had a look > at the source, if so, please backup your claim about this (possible) > privacy issue. Hey, anyone can say/claim anything here, but you should > at least add some proof for your claim ;)
I don't need to view source, my guess is the information is exchanged over http and could be packet sniffed, but I don't even need to do that, when you hit a site, it pulls up information about the site from Netcraft among others (it displays a trust rank) and you can click on whatever a few options to display even more information. Now even if I did view the source it would not tell me what Netcraft is retaining, so being the paranoid person I am, I have to assume they are keeping anything and everything sent to them. Studies recently proved that you could profile users based on weblogs from websites by search for logs on google, so imagine how much is available to Netcraft via a toolbar such as this without even getting to the gritty details of specifics. -- Best regards, Duane http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://happysnapper.com.au - Sell your photos over the net! http://e164.org - Using Enum.164 to interconnect asterisk servers "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." _______________________________________________ Mozilla-security mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-security
