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Posted by John Williamson on 05/22/07 20:12
Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Tue, 22 May 2007 16:59:13 +0100) it happened John Williamson
> <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote in
> <OvqdnfzzsIjVjs7bnZ2dnUVZ8sqjnZ2d@bt.com>:
>
>> The equivalent on my system is bu-in-f93.google.com:http It reads either
>> ESTABLISHED or TIME-WAIT
>>
>> My system runs on the downloaded database setting. The help file says
>> that the main anti-Phishing database used is held at Google.
>>
>> We could always ask the Firefox people. It's supposedly open source.
>>
>> Tciao for Now!
>>
>> John.
>
> Yes, but the bad stuff is that 1: it does not ask me, 2: I leave the PC on overnight
> and _every time_ that connection is there in the morning (so after many hours of non use).
> If there are a million Firefoxes, then that should mean their http server holds a million
> connects!
> Point 3 is that it camouflages, it uses 'google' while it really is a Hollywood
> slave company making money looking for copyright violations.
> It takes only a few packets to send your 'history', encrypted if must be.
> 4 is, that after I killed it (with the firewall the first one), immediately next day it
> tried an other one of those IP addresses... So maybe they try them all.
> And NO message!!!
> So by all means it is an undercover under false flag Trojan, open source or not.
> Sure CIA NSA and others will push for browsers with a feature like that,
> but think, maybe all that is needed is some code from them to dump all you
> did in the last 90 days.
> It NEVER asked me for permission to activate (and explain why).
>
>
See my reply to Nappy.
As`it's open source, you are at liberty to inspect the source code to
see what it does or get a competent programmer to inspect it for you &
rewrite the offending part. As it's released under the GPL, you can then
distribute your version under the same licence.
I would think if there was any sinister purpose, we would have found out.
The default cache for Firefox holds 20 entries, by the way, & I set
Firefox & all other browsers to clear the URL cache on exit. The URLs on
the list I have here are from before I enabled this setting.
This link came up while I was checking:-
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=550544&sid=62695685c30bf7ea6f93e6125f59b57c
They're not worried.
To be totally safe, though, just click the work offline item in the file
menu when you're not actually using the connection.
The server it connects to from here is, according to my firewall's
connection back tracing facility, at an IP address owned by Google &
physically located on one of their sites. The connection goes through
about 10 links. The really paranoid among us would worry about this
record being faked or a packet sniffer being installed at one of these
locations.
Alternatively, use IE & put up with what Billy boy does. Or go to the
dark side & use a Mac with Safari;-)
Tciao for Now!
John.
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