Opera - serious privacy concern

[Dead Paul]

Yeah, since at least Opera 9.10-20061214.1 (for linux at least) they have
included "trusted sites" and "phish tank", "anti fraud protection".
There's a little question mark on the right side of the address bar which
you click to "check" the "security status" of the current website. I have
read that firefox 2,x is or will be implementing a similar feature. I have
no information regarding IE.

This feature is a serious potential privacy concern.

What it means is that the web browser connects to an external registry
or database and transmits the url or web address of the page you are
currently visiting to the third party registry where the url is checked
against a database of known or suspected websites. Of course your own
IP number is available along with the web browsers "inquiry" at the
registry's location. Whether they record or keep this information is
not known by this author.



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[Jeanette Russo]

Dead Paul wrote:
> Yeah, since at least Opera 9.10-20061214.1 (for linux at least) they have
> included "trusted sites" and "phish tank", "anti fraud protection".
> There's a little question mark on the right side of the address bar which
> you click to "check" the "security status" of the current website. I have
> read that firefox 2,x is or will be implementing a similar feature. I have
> no information regarding IE.
>
> This feature is a serious potential privacy concern.
>
> What it means is that the web browser connects to an external registry
> or database and transmits the url or web address of the page you are
> currently visiting to the third party registry where the url is checked
> against a database of known or suspected websites. Of course your own
> IP number is available along with the web browsers "inquiry" at the
> registry's location. Whether they record or keep this information is
> not known by this author.
>
>
>
People want to know if their favorite porn site is being phished what
can they do?