[ale] Re: Totally OT

[Kalin Nakov]

Just a thought... What about if IE is sending the serial numbers of all
commercial products installed (if any for UNIX, I don't know), or just
sending the debug dumps to the MS programmers (I've personnally done that
for my applications-quite good practice for Internet oriented programs
(certainly Beta versions))? Aha! I think that it sends the history of the
visited links, so they know which sites are mostly visited; that way they
would know which company to buy :-)

On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 11:40:48AM -0400, Irv Mullins wrote:
> Forced to use IE for a few days, I noticed something interesting:
> If you have your "home page" set to about:blank, then open Explorer,
> and pull down the Address list in order to select a URL which you have
> visited recently, but don't click on any URL, there is some data
transferred
> over the net.
>
> Now, I'm not paranoid or anything, but just what info gets sent out, and
who
> do you suppose gets that info? Hmmm? Bet someone on this list knows.
>
> Regards,
> Irv