Opera to Start Phoning Home?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 20, 2006 @05:46AM from the they-know-what's-good-for-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Near the end of a story about Opera's determination to stay in the game: 'Earlier this week, Opera announced an addition that will keep it in step with its rivals. Johan Borg, a developer working on the browser, said Tuesday in a blog that the next edition, Opera 9.1, will include beefed up anti-phishing and anti-fraud features. Rather than simply indicate that a site is secure with a notation in the address bar, Opera 9.1 will also query Opera-owned servers for information on any site visited. Those that Opera has identifies as fraudulent will be automatically blocked by the browser.'"

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Re:Great feature realy. by Ksevio · 2006-10-20 06:23 · Score: 5, Interesting

Another thing mentioned in the blog posting is this: --- The requests go over HTTP, but the replies will be signed by the server to make sure they are genuine. We prefer to send information between the browser and ourselves in plain text, so our users can inspect the data we send "home". --- So it's not like they're sending everything back to opera without telling you what it is.