Re: What can my browser expose over network?

Karl Levinson wrote:
I agree that what a browser can tell a hostile web site varies depending on
what the web site does. However, your chances of surfing to such a hostile
web site that takes your personal info from your computer and does something
with it, via the browser, are very very low. Browser exploits are not the
most common form of hacking and loss of personal data.

I agree, to some extent. Actually, I have found it quite easy to
inadvertently go to a potentially hostile site (well, porn site
anyway), simply by mistyping a URL. It seems quite common for porn
sites to choose URLs that are anagrams of "legitimate" web sites.

But the point is you are correct: That was not the concern expressed
in my original posting.

I think you're overthinking this.

And perhaps you are right again. But I know that legitimate web sites
typically take advantage of the whois information, which is really more
about our ISP than our PC, to tailor ads or "welcome" messages to our
geographic region. I want to know if the computer name is equally
accessible to web sites.

But more to the point, I am looking for good web sites that display
that kind of local computer information -- web sites like ipinfo.info,
but perhaps with a more user-friendly interface. I vaguely recall
going to a such a web site that displayed a lot more local-computer
information on the first web page, without have to click on links. In
large type, it said something like: "Here is the information your
computer is exposing to the Internet".

I was not "overthinking" the dangers of it so much as I was simply
asking the question.

(But based on the first response, I did realize that "easily" is
subjective, and I began to wonder if, in fact, everything is accessible
to good HTML programmers. It was a digression -- and obviously a
confusing one.)

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