The Firefox conspiracy: It’s FUD time again!

A recent article, raised the question on whether, Firefox 2 new anti-phishing feature may pose a privacy threat. - Mozilla Links, October 27, 2006.

Source: Mozilla Links / Percy Cabello

A user just learned that Firefox 2 has an enhanced anti-phishing protection mode that checks every visited web address on a live database of known or suspect phishing web sites maintained for Google. So Google knows what web addresses are being visited. If you are logged on some Google service, it’s probable it also knows what web addresses you visit.

By default this mode is turned off. Instead, Firefox downloads a list of newly reported phishing sites twice an hour, web addresses are checked against it and Google knows nothing.

The user, iritant, thinks this is news, so he posts it to Slashdot. Slashdot agrees and approves it. The Inquirer thinks it’s a slow week for Firefox/Mozilla news and this is the best it will get so Nick Farrel posts an article about it: “Google is getting shedloads of information on the sorts of sites you are visiting”, reads the center paragraph.

Now we can wait and see it making the usual round on blogs and tech news and social bookmarking sites.

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