On 08/15/2007 06:39 PM, Steven wrote:
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:56:16 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:thought it was odd that google, or iceweasel, needed to know anything. Of course the entry was dropped when I terminated iceweasel.I've noticed similar behavior for a few years. While I've never really been pleased with it there isn't much choice unless you feel like devoting a good chuck of your time to searching and patching the source.[...]
Huh?This feature is called "safebrowsing," and turning it off is as easy as changing this option:
Edit-> Preferences-> Security-> Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery.
What concerns me most is that it's never publicized (either to the user specifically or in common PR discussions about the internet) about which unrequested/automatic connections are being made.
These discussions take place here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/ and here: http://lists.mozilla.org/ and here: alt.fan.mozilla and here: irc.mozilla.org and here (in your browser): Help Contents-> Preferences-> Security
If there's any sort of data being exchanged then who writes the protocol for the data exchange?
Most likely it is Google. I think I remember someone mentioning Opera using the safebrowsing information, so I don't think that Mozilla invented it. Search here: http://www.google.com/search?q=safebrowsing
Who ensures that the protocol is secure? In all reality it's probably exchanging a completely innocuous bit of data but who ensures that data is exchanged in a fashion which isn't as wide open as the recent discussions involving URI functionality exploits. ( http://security.itworld.com/5043/070815URIbrowserflaw/page_1.html )
Like I said, you can disable it if you don't want it. If you do so, make sure the people using that profile know how to discern between the real Paypal web site and a fake one.