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Re: IE
From: Will Image <xillwillx () yahoo com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 01:22:32 -0700 (PDT)
never said i felt any safer, im just saying its one more step towards security .. of security by obsecurity has always been the prefered method ... --- nicolas vigier <boklm () mars-attacks org> wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Ill will wrote:"user-agent contains very little _sensitive_ info" user agents could be used for exploits.. likeredirecting the browserto whatever exploit page by the definition ofwhat browser isconnecting to it etc.. so it would be a good ideafor some people toconseal what type of browser is defined in theheaders And you can feel safe with that ? Someone can put an exploit on a page without checking your browser before. The real solution is to use a browser with no known vulnerability (and that's better if it didn't have a lot in the past), not to try to hide
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- Re: IE, (continued)
- RE: IE joe (Jul 20)
- Re: IE Tim (Jul 19)
- Re: IE Eric Paynter (Jul 19)
- Re: IE Will Image (Jul 20)
- RE: IE Fritz Wuehler (Jul 19)
- Re: IE :VSMail mx1 Ted Morin (Jul 20)