From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 18 10: 8:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.25.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90FF14DFB for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:08:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de) Received: from fettesau.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (stuwopc5.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.209.5]) by mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA28688; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:05:05 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <4.1.20000118185031.00c4e580@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> X-Sender: ohoyer@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:54:29 +0100 To: Jonathon McKitrick From: Olaf Hoyer Subject: Re: microsoft got it right... Cc: freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 17:24 18.01.00 +0000, you wrote: > >Does that mean M$ can tell what OS you are running at the moment, or >what OS's you have installed on your machine? > Hi! Ok, did not follow the thread from the beginning. In fact, if they set a cookie, they can easily know which OS you _are_ running at the moment. Sniffing your OS installed is far more complicated, you'd need at least some malicious code on the web page, like ActiveX or so.. Regards Olaf Hoyer -------- Olaf Hoyer www.nightfire.de mailto:Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de FreeBSD- The power to serve ICQ:22838075 Liebe und Hass sind nicht blind, aber geblendet vom Feuer, dass sie selber mit sich tragen. (Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message