potential disclosure of private data in konqueror

[Tim Jansen]

On Sunday 12 January 2003 23:49, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > If this is a security problem, then what about the following:
> > - you paste something in the location bar and send it to your DNS server
> Thats true, but DNS servers are local. You have to trust your local dns
> server, otherwise there is not much to protect you from anyway.

It is much more likely that someone between you and your DNS server is 
interested in your password or the (possibly confidental) text that you 
pasted, for example a co-worker in the same LAN. I doubt that Google or some 
carrier that does not have any relationship with you scans your traffic or is 
able to exploit it.

bye...