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Political Factoid
Should you trust your browser?
- When you go to browse, for example,
to "www.wellsfargo.com"
your browser first has to look up the
numeric address of www.wellsfargo.com
which is "159.45.66.145"
- Your browser has its own favorite
look-up place for doing this -- a
site where every step of your
browsing can be tracked.
- When you go to sign into the Wells
Fargo site, you must enter your password.
- Your browser offers to save your
password for you.
- Most browers (be it Google, Apple, Microsoft)
have their own "cloud" storage so that they
can remember and retrieve your password,
regardless of whether you are using your
office or home desktop, your tablet, or
your mobile phone, whether you are at
home, at the office, or on vacation.
- By-the-way, the www.wellsfargo.com
web server advertises itself to your
browser as "KONICHIWA/1.0"
. . . but has been detected
as actually being a
"Netscape-Enterprise/6.0" server.
"Can" you trust your browser?
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