Re: SR might be palatable if (part 2, opening a new PMR) - of interest to anyone security conscious

2011-03-25 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 01:03 -0500 on 03/24/2011, Barbara Nitz wrote about Re: SR might be palatable if (part 2, opening a new PMR) - : Incidentally, this might be the place where I can turn off showing images. But it has to be set per web site. And how do I then display a single image that I may be interested

Re: SR might be palatable if (part 2, opening a new PMR) - of interest to anyone security conscious

2011-03-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:48:49 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: In FF, if you go to your preferences and select the content menu you will find a check box that allows you to set the automatic image load default to on or off. When off, images will not load but just show place holders. Clicking a

Re: SR might be palatable if (part 2, opening a new PMR) - of interest to anyone security conscious

2011-03-24 Thread Barbara Nitz
But it sounds as if Barbara uses Firefox only to contact IBM. She probably wishes she could whitelist ibm.com and block everything else. There are several reasons I held off using Firefox (and used IE instead): a) The cookie management that I still heartily dislike - I think IE's way is much

Re: SR might be palatable if (part 2, opening a new PMR) - of interest to anyone security conscious

2011-03-24 Thread Norbert Friemel
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:03:31 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote: For a), I have resigned myself to it, but as Gil says, I wish I could use the whitelist settings like in IE instead of having to let myself get prompted every time. Just about every web site these days requests a cookie, and it is annoying.

Firefox, was: Re: SR might be palatable if (part 2, opening a new PMR) - of interest to anyone security conscious

2011-03-24 Thread Barbara Nitz
Norbert, I haven't tried this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-whitelist-with-buttons/ Well, it certainly changes the way cookies are handled. First of all, it told me that the login to bama had expired, despite there being a cookie. And it overwrites the settings for

SR might be palatable if (part 2, opening a new PMR) - of interest to anyone security conscious

2011-03-23 Thread Barbara Nitz
SR shows me another useless, non-intuitive page where I am hit with an error message (You dont have any saved products. Please see the Supported products tab to select a product.) before typing in anything. In addition, I have to figure out that I need to do *yet another* click on Supported

Re: SR might be palatable if (part 2, opening a new PMR) - of interest to anyone security conscious

2011-03-23 Thread Norbert Friemel
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:01:20 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote: And did I mention that there are several sites that want to set cookies? Like news.bbc.co.uk? Or safebrowsing.clients.google.com? Or pt200204.unica.com? Need I mention that IBM must have invited one of these sites into the HTTPS (note the

Re: SR might be palatable if (part 2, opening a new PMR) - of interest to anyone security conscious

2011-03-23 Thread Barbara Nitz
It's not IBM, it's Firefox: I have only last week started to use firefox when the IE6 version that my company insists upon became too much of a hassle. And I thought I had closed all those holes! news.bbc.co.uk: delete Latest Headlines (or other live bookmarks) from your bookmark folder/toolbar

Re: SR might be palatable if (part 2, opening a new PMR) - of interest to anyone security conscious

2011-03-23 Thread Norbert Friemel
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

Re: SR might be palatable if (part 2, opening a new PMR) - of interest to anyone security conscious

2011-03-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
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

Re: SR might be palatable if (part 2, opening a new PMR) - of interest to anyone security conscious

2011-03-23 Thread Ed Gould
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)