On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:43:48PM +0200, Sven Aluoor wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 3.0.3-2 > Severity: wishlist > > When Iceweasel is started he connects automatically to different sites > like Google, Mozilla and BBC. This "spyware" behavor should not be > default; the user should explicit enable Malware Protection, News-feed > and other fancy features. > > Here urlsnarf (dsniff package) output: > > urlsnarf: listening on eth0 [tcp port 80 or port 8080 or port 3128] > 10.104.234.88 - - [22/Oct/2008:20:17:08 +0200] "GET > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/granparadiso/ HTTP/1.1" - - "-" > "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092816 > Iceweasel/3.0.3 (Debian-3.0.3-2)"
This is planned to be replaced with about: in next upload already The rest is the phishing protection. It doesn't send anything about the urls you browse, but only get a list of known phishing urls, and subsequent updates. This is not a privacy concern. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
