[conspire] Browser 'Wars'

[Ruben Safir]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 07:43:58PM -0800, Don Marti wrote:
> begin Rick Moen quotation of Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 06:55:41PM -0800:
> 
> > I briefly considered lavishing an entire slide on how lame, stupid, and
> > useless Mozilla Corporation's 'do not track header' is, but figured that
> > was obvious and also largely redundant to other material in my SVLUG
> > talk.
> 
> You can't rely on an HTTP load balancer to preserve
> the RFC3514 evil bit*, but it will generally pass
> HTTP headers.  DNT gives you similar protections to
> what RFC3514 support on the server side does, but
> can be handled at the client/web application level
> and doesn't require RFC3514 support in any firewalls
> between your client system and the web site.
> 
>   * http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514


I don't really understand the logic in this?  Do they expect malware
systems to set the evil bit on before they try to hack into NASDAQ?

Ruben
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