NODE 6533fa3cRe: Anonymous Web Browsing
"Mark Grant, M.A. (Oxon)" <mark@unicorn.com>Sun, 3 Mar 1996 23:11:47 +0800
On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
> These are "web proxies," and searching on this should produce some
> information to answer your questions.
There's a problem with that. I've noticed several pages recently with
hidden mailto: links that aren't marked as such. So you can be happily
browsing away through a web proxy only to click on a link and have your
real id mailed to the site's owners. As people have mentioned, this is
even worse with Javascript.
Note to Netscape people: Is it possible to have an option that will *always*
pop up a mail window and request confirmation before mail is sent out? Or
disable mailto altogether? It would be a lot easier than binary editing
the executable to remove all the mailto strings...
Or does it exist? I can't find it.
Mark