Previously I whined that USA.net was changing the URLs in received email to proxy through their server, meaning they had logs of all URLs you visited when clicking on hyperlinks while reading your personal email. That this violates their own privacy policy. For some reason Declan failed to report it. ;-) Analog film chemicals must be affecting his judgement. New note: if you bookmark the URL in the personal email someone sent you, it bookmarks it at the USA.net address. ---- Here is the resulting URL in the new window USA.net opens when you click on an URL in your email: http://www.netaddress.com/tpl/Info/Popup?hidden___url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazo... I just tried scooping it and using it directly, trying amazon here. It worked. Anyone have direct access to their own server logs? What cookies/referrals/misc is logged on the receiving system? Continue clicking, and it's still via USA.net. It looks like a free "anonymizer" to me.
Interesting. I'm behind on stuff, having come back recently from two weeks at Burning Man and in SF, and organizing my patent expiration party. I'm only skimming threads right now. --Declan On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 05:44:32PM -0400, George@orwellian.org wrote:
Previously I whined that USA.net was changing the URLs in received email to proxy through their server, meaning they had logs of all URLs you visited when clicking on hyperlinks while reading your personal email.
That this violates their own privacy policy.
For some reason Declan failed to report it. ;-) Analog film chemicals must be affecting his judgement.
New note: if you bookmark the URL in the personal email someone sent you, it bookmarks it at the USA.net address.
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Here is the resulting URL in the new window USA.net opens when you click on an URL in your email:
http://www.netaddress.com/tpl/Info/Popup?hidden___url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazo...
I just tried scooping it and using it directly, trying amazon here.
It worked.
Anyone have direct access to their own server logs? What cookies/referrals/misc is logged on the receiving system?
Continue clicking, and it's still via USA.net.
It looks like a free "anonymizer" to me.
George@Orwellian.Org wrote:
Previously I whined that USA.net was changing the URLs in received email to proxy through their server, meaning they had logs of all URLs you visited when clicking on hyperlinks while reading your personal email.
<SNIP>
Here is the resulting URL in the new window USA.net opens when you click on an URL in your email:
http://www.netaddress.com/tpl/Info/Popup?hidden___url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazo...
<SNIP>
Continue clicking, and it's still via USA.net.
It's *NOT* anonymizing anything. DO NOT USE THIS IN PLACE OF AN ANONIMIZER!!! All it does is log where you're going. It doesn't actually proxy anything. It simply opens up two frames, one that says "You are visiting a site outside of Net@ddress. Please close this browser to return to Net@ddress." and instructs your browser to go to whatever embedded url you have. In this case Amazon.com. Should you hover your mouse over the links in Amazon you won't see the netaddress.com url pop up. You'll see Amazon urls. So while, yes, it does spy on what urls you visit, it does *NOT* proxy them, so it offers no protection!!! -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------
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