From: Shachar Shemesh (linux-il_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Wed 23 Jun 2004 - 22:51:43 IDT
Vasiliev Michael wrote:
>On Wednesday 23 June 2004 16:17, Micha Feigin wrote:
>[skipped]
>MF> It would probably be as safe as the windows versions. There is
>MF> supposedly no spyware in there but there is no way tell (actually you
>MF> could try listening in but I doubt you would recognize bad traffic from
>MF> good one).
>
>One thing for sure, it reads your Mozilla/Netscape/Opera settings to try and
>determine the proxy server address (this is being presented as a "silent"
>service to the user). Who knows what else do they read ans analyze? If it
>would be up to me to write a cheeky piece of code lurking in the shadows, I
>would definitely use something like this as a host. Something that runs
>constantly in the background, knows everything it wants about user activity,
>plus the "legal" ability to generate a humongous amount of traffic using a
>proprietary protocol? Yum-mm...
>
>
>
Why not just run it through strace and find out?
Shachar
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