From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:08:59 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Information Sent by Netscape during Queries
Message-ID: <199601161954.UAA19735@utopia.hacktic.nl>
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Jeff Weinstein writes:

> > 3) Can we go completely stealth inside of Netscape without a proxy server?

>   No.  Right now you can't disable cookies, you can't disable
> referer, and you can't mask your IP address.

But on Unix systems, at least, you can make "referer" more difficult
for nosy servers to use -- subject to the "applicable laws" where you
live.  (The license agreement says, "...you agree not to modify the
Software ... except to the extent [that] applicable laws specifically
prohibit such restriction.")

Just back up your Netscape executable, then load it into Emacs (or any
editor which can handle arbitrary binary files), search for the "Referer:"
string, and change it to an appropriate string of the same length.

"MYOB:   " sounds like an appropriate string to me...



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