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From: xillwillx at yahoo.com (Will Image)
Subject: IE

never said i felt any safer, im just saying its one
more step towards security .. of security by
obsecurity has always been the prefered method ... 


--- nicolas vigier <boklm@...s-attacks.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Ill will wrote:
> 
> > "user-agent contains very little _sensitive_ info"
> > 
> > user agents could be used for exploits.. like
> redirecting the browser
> > to whatever exploit page  by the definition of
> what browser is
> > connecting to it etc.. so it would be a  good idea
> for some people to
> > conseal what type of browser is defined in the
> headers
> 
> And you can feel safe with that ? Someone can put an
> exploit on a page
> without checking your browser before.
> The real solution is to use a browser with no known
> vulnerability (and
> that's better if it didn't have a lot in the past),
> not to try to hide


> what you are using.
> 
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