Browzar tells no tales
p2pnet.net News:- KISS (Keep it simple, stupid) might have been the thought behind Ajaz Ahmed’s Browzar, a tiny 264kb Internet Explorer shell browser you can run from your desktop without, he promises, leaving a tell-tale trail.
“A good friend of mine recently found out his girlfriend was pregnant when auto-complete came up with ‘symptoms of pregnancy’.”
“I must have been about 14 and was using my Mum’s work computer. For some reason I decided to check what was in her web history. It was mostly benign stuff until the middle where she had: divorce.com, divorce.net, Ask Jeeves, advice about divorce. Yes, I found out that my parents were going to get divorced before my Dad did.”
“I just tried auto-complete on my wife’s computer and got: Hitler, Nazi marching, air raid, blitzkrieg, infantry German, Nazi rally, Wehmacht infantry, Wehrmach rally… If she wasn’t a history teacher I’d be quite worried.”
Thus posts Freeserve founder Ahmed on the Browzar site. Use the application from there, or download it and run it from your desktop without leaving personal details as you go, he says.
It doesn’t call for installation or registration, and doesn’t save information from sites visited while using it. “Cache, history, cookies and auto-complete forms are all automatically deleted, protecting people’s privacy while online,” declares Ahmed.
You can do already do all of that yourself on browsers such as Firefox, say? Browzar is for the “less savvy surfer,” he states, says silicon.com, going on:
“Ahmed denied Browzar could be used to conceal illegal web-based activities, as information on users’ searches is still accessible via the ISP. Asked about the ethics of providing a tool that people could use to hide their activities from partners and family, Ahmed said his company is “simply providing a platform for people to use and people use it for many things”.
New versions will be replacements rather than updates and, ” Ahmed promised expanded functionality in the future,” says silicon.com.
Also See:
silicon.com – Browser taps into web privacy fears, August 31, 2006
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