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by cheeky pete

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A colleague showed me this article:

http://grc.com/su/earthlink.htm is the address. OK I have attemtped tolink, but if the HTML fails try copying http://grc.com/su/earthlink.htm into your browser.

My question is simple. Is this article scaremongering, or is there some sort of real threat here?

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by ebob

...at that URL. Basically, GRC have pulled back from their initial concerns that this might somehow be a form of an otherwise unknown "super cookie".

But there is still a concern about this header info providing system level information without the user necessarily knowing. Like the authour of the GRC article, I too am a "kne-jerk privacy freak", and am glad I'm not an Earthnet user!

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