Re: [osol-discuss] Is OpenSolaris FireFox snooping on its users ?

2008-07-25 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Joga wrote: I looked at that url and I see that it is FireFox fetching a simple png file ( 1p.png ) and passing a parameter for the time as well as reporting the User-Agent. So that seems like pretty obvious user base tracking and data collection going on there. What else are you

Re: [osol-discuss] Is OpenSolaris FireFox snooping on its users ?

2008-07-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Stephen Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-24 20:20]: Joga wrote: I looked at that url and I see that it is FireFox fetching a simple png file ( 1p.png ) and passing a parameter for the time as well as reporting the

[osol-discuss] Is OpenSolaris FireFox snooping on its users ?

2008-07-24 Thread Joga
I downloaded the iso image and figured out how to burn it .. boot it and stuff. I ran into this when I was trying to figure out why my network ports were not being detected, or configured via DHCP or why they were not working at all. I was looking and see this : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ifconfig

Re: [osol-discuss] Is OpenSolaris FireFox snooping on its users ?

2008-07-24 Thread Sergio Schvezov
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Joga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is this looking for planet.opensolaris.org ?? That is a blog collector isn't it ? Any RSS feeds within your bookmarks? A little while later, as in microseconds I see this pile of junk : 1328: 2049 206e 6565 6420 7468

Re: [osol-discuss] Is OpenSolaris FireFox snooping on its users ?

2008-07-24 Thread Shawn Walker
Joga wrote: I looked at that url and I see that it is FireFox fetching a simple png file ( 1p.png ) and passing a parameter for the time as well as reporting the User-Agent. So that seems like pretty obvious user base tracking and data collection going on there. What else are you guys

Re: [osol-discuss] Is OpenSolaris FireFox snooping on its users ?

2008-07-24 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-24 20:20]: Joga wrote: I looked at that url and I see that it is FireFox fetching a simple png file ( 1p.png ) and passing a parameter for the time as well as reporting the User-Agent. So that seems like pretty obvious user base tracking and data