[thelist] Netscape 6 privacy risk

Peter-Paul Koch gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 20 04:54:00 CST 2002


Privacy problem discovered in Netscape 6: if you use the 'Internet Search'
functionality for any other search engine than Netscape's, your query is
first sent to the Netscape search engine nonetheless, and redirected
afterwards.

Thus Netscape knows when you use another search engine and what your query
is.

Original message:
http://lists.insecure.org/risks/2002/Jan-Mar/0009.html
scroll to about the middle of the page.

Report:
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175035.html

ppk



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