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  • To Protect and Surf

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    Martin Brotzeller
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    Slashdot reports, that CSS History Sniffing is back – this time utilizing the latency that your browser shows when you have visited a site already. The time a browser takes to respond differs when the resource that is linked in a page is already in the browser cache. Of course that only works when you…

  • Tracking Menaces for Your Privacy

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    Martin Brotzeller
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    A lot of people are talking about a particular research paper featured by Wired of late. That paper describes, how users can be, and are, tracked against their express wish. Even deleting cookies does not solve the tracking problem. A lot of folks talk about how unethical, probably unlawful and unfair it is. So far,…

  • Useful Addons

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    Every Mozilla/Thunderbird-user knows addons.mozilla.org. But good extensions are rare. And only SOME of the addons are useful. And for our daily work we need only good and useful extensions. In the winter holidays I’ve had time to look at many addons. And found some things, which might be useful for our daily work. Maybe you…