[ PFIR ] EFF calls Ubuntu's Amazon search result feature a "major privacy problem"

Cybe R. Wizard cyber_wizard at mindspring.com
Tue Oct 30 23:48:16 UTC 2012


On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:35:12 -0700
MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ouch.

> 
> EFF calls Ubuntu's Amazon search result feature a "major privacy
> problem"
> 
> http://t.co/L22hOgCS  (ars technica)
> 
>     The Electric Frontier Foundation has some choice words for the
> latest version of the Ubuntu operating system, calling its inclusion
> of search results from Amazon (and possibly other third parties) a
> "data leak" and a "violation" of privacy.
> 

> 
Then there is this bug on launchpad:
< https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1055766>

Are you affected?  Add yourself!

(Thanks David G.)

Personal to Mr. ZenWiz:
Did you intend to have a Cc: ?  I've left it in that belief.

Cybe R. Wizard
-- 
For security's sake all Windows should be barred.
	Cybe R. Wizard





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