Today I reinstalled Windows

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> IF I have to to access questionable sites I
> usually did it on my Linux box but now I can do it with Google
> Chrome's Incognito mode or Firefox's Private browsing mode which
> protects the host computer from malware.

It does nothing of the kind.

If the browsers' developers were able to make them any more secure,
they would not have it as an option you could turn off. Why would
they?

What "private browsing" does is just turn off logging of the sites you
visit in the browser's history and stops images being saved in the
cache. That's *all*. Nothing to do with security.

The ostensible reason is that you could, for instance, be scouring job
sites while at work & you don't want your boss to be able to see. But
of course if you were at work they could just check the firewall/proxy
server logs.

The more likely reason is so that your home computer will have less
traces of all the pr0n sites left on it...

But there is no security benefit. You can forget that now - a false
sense of security is very dangerous thing.

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