[LINK] Why does Firefox send non-URL text in the location bar to Google etc.?

[David Boxall]

On 3/01/2011 10:37 PM, Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 03/01/2011, at 10:27 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>> David Goldstein wrote:
>>
>>> What's so scary about people not using URLs or bookmarks?
>>
>> You can paste ANY text from your clipboard into the location window.
>> Google broadcasts such information live. Imagine accidentally pasting
>> something confidential into the location window and your browser
>> passes that on to Google without any further thought. Firefox and
>> others do this.
>
> You can paste ANY text from your clipboard into your email client... Imagine accidentally pasting something confidential into your email client and it passed that on without any further thought.
> ...
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and not paying attention to the real world. There's only so much we can 
do to protect the careless.

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