=========[ r t s / n y c ]======== Another reason to dump your micro$oft software:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 08:51:46 +0200 From: rene@xs4all.nl To: discussion@hippiesfromhell.org Subject: FYI: IE5.x users beware - sites can monitor your clipboard!

The reason for this post is that I think it might be interesting for some websites to start to collect the clipboards that employees of NGOs or activists are using.

Yesyes, I just browsed to http://snoop.anonymizer.com/cgi-bin/peleus.cgi to get some info, and saw that my new IE5.x browser actually makes my CLIPBOARD available to the site I'm currently viewing...

Since I find this a privacy/security concern for specific groups of

---------- Forwarded message ---------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "RTN" <rtn@reclaimthe.net> To: <rtsnyc@lists.tao.ca> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 1:09 AM Subject: FYI: IE5.x users beware - sites can monitor your clipboard! people, I

thought I might share with you on how to disable this 'feature'...

(this done on Win2000 with english IE5)

in techinese: menu: Tools | Internet Options tab: Security select: Internet icon button: Custom Level under "scripting" set "allow paste operations via script" to 'disable' or 'prompt'

in english: Click on the "Tools" menu at the top of any browser window, Click on "Internet Options". Click on the "Security" tab, top of the window Click on the "Internet" icon Click on the button "Custom level" Find the item in the list that has "scripting" as its 1st-level description Under that, set "allow paste operations via script" to 'disable' or 'prompt'.

Please spread this message to whereever you feel appropriate; I'd appreciate if IT-managers of NGOs such as amnesty etc are notified.

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