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Old 09-01-2006, 07:43 PM   #1
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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/...LT_SEC&nlid=38

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/...tprints_1.html

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

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archive...onymous_b.html

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

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ANewPr...erti sed.aspx

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





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