Re: How's it Possible for a Website to "sniff-out" my Full Name???
From: Doug Fox (dfox168@hotmail.com)
Date: 03/09/03
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From: "Doug Fox" <dfox168@hotmail.com> Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 22:47:14 GMT
How can I prevent my client to leak out information from my PC?
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch> wrote in message
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> On Sat, Mar 8, Earl F. Parrish inscribed on the eternal scroll:
>
> > It is probably a JavaScript on a web page which displays data on
> > your screen. The same thing is done to displays the files on your
> > hard drive on a web page.
>
> Indeed, this can astonish some gullible users.
>
> > Nothing leaves your computer.
>
> Javascript can set cookies, which may be sent to the server on
> subsequent requests. So client-side information _can_ leak out,
> if the client's security policy allows it.
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