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Re: SSL Browser Vulnerability Discovered
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal Finney)
Wed Apr 2 11:37:32 1997
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 08:24:36 -0800
From: Hal Finney <hal@rain.org>
To: risks@CSL.sri.com, stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, tomw@netscape.com
Frankly I think this damned REFERRER field is one of the biggest privacy
leaks on the net. Yes, I know it has uses, just like cookies, but 90%
of the time it's not useful and just leaks information about where I've
been. I want to be able to turn it off!
Hal
