Anyone got any thoughts on IE8?

[DanceDiva]

I've been a Firefox devotee for a long time, but I'm intrigued by the whole InPrivate Browsing. (Purposely dirty-sounding feature?)

What do you people who are smarter than I think about this feature versus the other options out there?

[Hayduke]

Is there a Linux version?

[metulj]

I've been a Firefox devotee for a long time, but I'm intrigued by the whole InPrivate Browsing. (Purposely dirty-sounding feature?)

What do you people who are smarter than I think about this feature versus the other options out there?

In Firefox:

Preferences-->Privacy-->Always Clear My Private Data(Check)

[DanceDiva]

Haven't heard if there is. Doesn't appear to be on a cursory glance.

[DanceDiva]

In Firefox:

Preferences-->Privacy-->Always Clear My Private Data(Check)

Yeah, I have that. This appears to go a step further.

However, in the newest "beta" test version of Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer 8, which was made available Wednesday, a mode called InPrivateBrowsing lets users surf without having a list of sites they visit get stored on their computers.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/28/m....ap/index.html

[metulj]

Yeah, I have that. This appears to go a step further.



http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/28/m....ap/index.html

However, in the newest "beta" test version of Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer 8, which was made available Wednesday, a mode called InPrivateBrowsing lets users surf without having a list of sites they visit get stored on their computers.

Right. I've got a bridge in Brooklyn if you are interested.

When I was at UT in IT as a grad assistant, we could trap each and every connection (not packet, every connection) that any user made on the network, any protocol, any data. I and another guy wrote a suite of programs as grad students that could actually produce a user profile by the sort of traffic that a user was creating. In the end, we could tell the difference in terms of traffic between the denizens of different dorms and by gender.

We could, if we wanted to (but never did while I was there other than experimentally on ourselves) put a trap on a users connectivity and save it all to file. We couldn't see encrypted traffic because we swore an oath on the Perl Camel book that we'd never resort to man-in-the-middle attacks, but regular old http was pwn3d. If we wanted to, we could see what you were doing, every single byte.

InPrivate Browsing is useless.

[KO]

For the record, that wasn't me. Someone borrowed my laptop.

[trancendyce]

For the record, that wasn't me. Someone borrowed my laptop.

that's what they all say.

[DanceDiva]

Right. I've got a bridge in Brooklyn if you are interested.

When I was at UT in IT as a grad assistant, we could trap each and every connection (not packet, every connection) that any user made on the network, any protocol, any data. I and another guy wrote a suite of programs as grad students that could actually produce a user profile by the sort of traffic that a user was creating. In the end, we could tell the difference in terms of traffic between the denizens of different dorms and by gender.

We could, if we wanted to (but never did while I was there other than experimentally on ourselves) put a trap on a users connectivity and save it all to file. We couldn't see encrypted traffic because we swore an oath on the Perl Camel book that we'd never resort to man-in-the-middle attacks, but regular old http was pwn3d. If we wanted to, we could see what you were doing, every single byte.

InPrivate Browsing is useless.

Which is why I came here and asked first rather than going for it. I knew I'd get the scoop.

Thanks!

[# 9]

IE is dead. Pass it on.