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Snake OIl Browser Utility Alert TwistyCreek 09-01-2006
Posted by TwistyCreek on September 1, 2006, 2:54 pm
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A great example of how a thing can be reported in "mainstream" news but
still be worse than useless. And a good discussion of how "false sense
of security" sucks in a big way.

Here's the "cover your tracks" web browsing utility as trumpeted by a
couple major computer rags...

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002864&source=NLT_SEC&nlid=38

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/30/HNwebfootprints_1.html

Here's Bruce Schneier's blog entry regarding Browzar...

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/new_anonymous_b.html

A couple links to how this doesn't work even as advertised from the
above blog...

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ANewPrivateBrowserIMeanBrowzarDoesNotWorkAsAdvertised.aspx

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2006/Sep/0001.html




Posted by melic on September 1, 2006, 4:01 pm
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Thanks real useful information, I just happen to have downloaded it last
week. :)

Posted by traveler 66 on September 1, 2006, 6:58 pm
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On 1 Sep 2006 22:01:39 +0200, melic wrote:

> Thanks real useful information, I just happen to have downloaded it last
> week. :)

Try the one that Ultimate Anonymity created up, it seems to work pretty
well.

Posted by Sebastian Gottschalk on September 1, 2006, 5:12 pm
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It's based on MSIE, as if this wouldn't be sucking enough...

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