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Browser Privacy Test
lazyforker writes "A NYTimes blog post reports the results of security researcher Kate McKinley's tests of various browsers' (FireFox, Chrome, IE, Safari) privacy protection mechanisms. Specifically she tested their cookie handling. She also examined their handling of Flash's cookies. In summary: Safari on Mac OS X (in the 'private browsing' mode) is not so private ('quirky'). Safari on XP is not private at all. Flash behaves awfully everywhere."
I am kind of hoping his best friends wife is a midget. Or maybe just watch his best friends wife doing a midget.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
I'm posting this from Konqueror on Linux as god intended and all that; but http://windows.kde.org/ [kde.org] is the place to look if you want Konqueror goodness on Windows.
Technical limitations, M$'s long history of technical sabotage and the eminent collapse of M$ and Windows market share makes Windows ports a huge waste of effort. Privacy and security on Windows is impossible because the system is rooted by design and you a little more than a renter of a system you can never own. KDE could provide improved performance but M$ sabotage will eliminate that, the same way iTunes, AV and other popular software are routinely broken under Vista. Finally, Vista has failed and Windows market share is already starting to slip. What's the point of porting to eight year old XP, a failed Vista or an expensive and soon to fail Windows 7? It's time to tell your friends that software goodness is best found in the free software world.
Intellectual property was the desert property of the twenth century.