[thelist] Netscape 6 privacy risk

[Karen J. Bowen]

Interesting.  I found the file in question (see article) in the
"searchplugins" directory in Netscape's install, so check Mozilla's
install and found similar files, which although not so obviously
snooping on us, possibly are also logging some info - check the lines
that starts with "update".  (I could be very wrong here..  what is a
.src file?)

All this being said, however, I really feel like saying "lawd - is that
all they can come up with?!"  Now, if you have a few spare years, let's
check that big rival product...

Cheers,
Karen
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Peter-Paul Koch wrote:
>
> 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
>