Opera to Start Phoning Home?

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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Sounds like Internet 1.5

[NRAdude]

I know for a fact that Internet 2 is being administered to prevent "activist" groups from participating in the new availability of bandwidth. Prison Planet editors complained of all the biased surveilance being put on Internet 2. Terror Storm is #2 on Google Video yesterday, and would've been #1 months ago if not for Google Video being tipped-off by *someone* to freaze the download/view Counter.

If the people think Internet 2 will be so good, then take an example of all the crap the MPAA and RIAA are fronting on everyone that participated in Internet 1. This Opera "feature" is just that of Internet 2 malware entering now. The only thing secure is information moved through the first ring of a Secure Shell in a secure environment. I notice the history of system and network administration preventatives just keeps re-turring itself on all the hyped "secure" technologies advertised to prevent malicious useage. In the end, a bullet in the head is just as good as an unplugged network Switch.