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From: Geoff Lock on 17 Jan 2010 21:09 Craig Welch wrote: > Halfix NB wrote: > >> Handing out your IP number to a site of unknown origin could never be >> a good idea as far as security is concerned, regardless of how good >> your security software is. > > Even though you do it every single time you visit a website? > > EVERY SINGLE TIME. > > Despite what Rod Speed dreamed, it has nothing to do with your browser > settings. It's how the web works. > > Visit http://www.wazu.jp/auscomputers/ for example. > It is unlikely the OP will visit that above potentially risky website because it is probably an unknown site and could compromise his security. :) For crying out loud, I am not even sure if the OP use the Google website as that website has apparently been exploited by a commonly used web browser. See http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/calls-to-ditch-internet-explorer-after-china-hacks-20100118-mfef.html but please be careful visiting that link because it might run malicious software on your machine. Consider yourself warned!
From: Rod Speed on 18 Jan 2010 01:16 Craig Welch wrote > Halfix NB wrote >> Handing out your IP number to a site of unknown origin could never >> be a good idea as far as security is concerned, regardless of how >> good your security software is. > Even though you do it every single time you visit a website? > EVERY SINGLE TIME. > Despite what Rod Speed dreamed, it has nothing to do with your browser settings. It's how the web works. I never ever said that THAT was anything to do with browser settings, fuckwit. The browser settings are JUST to avoid getting fucked over by a malicious web site, fuckwit. > Visit http://www.wazu.jp/auscomputers/ for example.
From: Ten thousandandone on 18 Jan 2010 02:26 On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:16:08 +1100, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Craig Welch wrote >> Halfix NB wrote > >>> Handing out your IP number to a site of unknown origin could never >>> be a good idea as far as security is concerned, regardless of how >>> good your security software is. > >> Even though you do it every single time you visit a website? > >> EVERY SINGLE TIME. > >> Despite what Rod Speed dreamed, it has nothing to do with your browser settings. It's how the web works. > >I never ever said that THAT was anything to do with browser settings, fuckwit. > >The browser settings are JUST to avoid getting fucked over by a malicious web site, fuckwit. Keep digging Roddles, you are up to waist already!!!!! Wotta fuckwit > >> Visit http://www.wazu.jp/auscomputers/ for example. >
From: Halfix NB on 18 Jan 2010 03:32 "Craig Welch" <craig(a)pacific.net.sg> wrote in message news:hj0enm$bt$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > Halfix NB wrote: > >> Handing out your IP number to a site of unknown origin could never be a >> good idea as far as security is concerned, regardless of how good your >> security software is. > > Even though you do it every single time you visit a website? > > EVERY SINGLE TIME. > Yes, but these are websites that I am choosing to visit. I'm talking about being forced to visit an unknown site in order to perform a required function such as remote desktop management. Are you saying this is a good approach to security? > Despite what Rod Speed dreamed, it has nothing to do with your browser > settings. It's how the web works. > > Visit http://www.wazu.jp/auscomputers/ for example. > > -- > Craig http://www.wazu.jp/ > 1,239 Unicode fonts for 82 written language groups: > Price your own web plan: http://www.wazu.jp/hosting/
From: Halfix NB on 18 Jan 2010 06:50
"Craig Welch" <craig(a)pacific.net.sg> wrote in message news:hj17bv$sh8$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > Halfix NB wrote: > >> "Craig Welch" <craig(a)pacific.net.sg> wrote in message >> news:hj0enm$bt$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... >>> Halfix NB wrote: >>> >>>> Handing out your IP number to a site of unknown origin could never be a >>>> good idea as far as security is concerned, regardless of how good your >>>> security software is. >>> Even though you do it every single time you visit a website? >>> >>> EVERY SINGLE TIME. >>> >> >> Yes, but these are websites that I am choosing to visit. I'm talking >> about being forced to visit an unknown site in order to perform a >> required function such as remote desktop management. Are you saying this >> is a good approach to security? > > You're not being 'forced' to visit any unknown sites. Your mouse in > entirely under your control. > I am forced to visit sites of unknown operation if there is no other way to find out my external IP address. > 90% of the sites that I visit are 'unknown' in that I don't know who owns > them, or what might lurk behind them. Why should I care? And there's > nothing they can do with my IP address. > 90% of the sites you visit might be 'unknown', but that is your choice. It's your choice to put yourself at that risk. What if I don't want to put myself or a customer/client at this risk? Your IP address represents, at the very least, a computer currently in use which could potentially have weak security or other vulnerabilities, as opposed to an IP number that is not in use, or a computer that is not turned on. The fact that your computer has visited one of those sites makes your IP address a lot more valuable to hackers etc. > Why did you post twice? > I did not intend to post twice. >>> Despite what Rod Speed dreamed, it has nothing to do with your browser >>> settings. It's how the web works. >>> >>> Visit http://www.wazu.jp/auscomputers/ for example. > > Why did you include this in your reply when you have not added further > commentary? > Because it is acceptable to include the rest of the previous poster's post even if you don't respond to that part, because it provides context. >>> -- >>> Craig http://www.wazu.jp/ >>> 1,239 Unicode fonts for 82 written language groups: >>> Price your own web plan: http://www.wazu.jp/hosting/ > > My signature was properly delineated. Why therefore did you include it in > your quoted response? > See answer above. > -- > Craig http://www.wazu.jp/ > 1,239 Unicode fonts for 82 written language groups: > Price your own web plan: http://www.wazu.jp/hosting/ |