help content update per bugzilla 122806, r-oeschger; formatting fixes, added a link.

2002-03-27 05:25:37 +00:00 · 2002-03-27 05:25:37 +00:00 · 3023e3f21f
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   <meta name="Author" content="Stephen P. Morse">
   <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) [Netscape]">
   <title>Understanding Privacy</title>
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+<link rel="stylesheet" href="chrome://help/locale/content_style.css" type="text/css">
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-<center><b>UNDERSTANDING PRIVACY</b></center>
+<center><p><b>UNDERSTANDING PRIVACY</b></center>

 <p>This document explains what degree of privacy you can expect while you
 surf on the world-wide web and how you can control what information is
 given out about you.&nbsp; The important point to note is that you are
-in control &mdash; nobody can obtain personal information about you unless you
+in control&mdash;nobody can obtain personal information about you unless you
 explicitly allow them to.
 <p>There are various ways that a site has of obtaining information about
 you.&nbsp; When you request a page from a site, a certain amount of information
@ -30,7 +33,7 @@ are described below in detail.
 <p>When you request a page from a site, a small amount of information about
 you is given to that site.&nbsp; In particular, the site is told the three
 items listed below.&nbsp; Beyond that, the site is unable to obtain any
-other information about you with out your knowledge &mdash; it does not know
+other information about you with out your knowledge&mdash;it does not know
 your e-mail address and certainly does not know your name.
 <p><i>1. Operating Environment</i>
 <p>The site is told something about your operating environment such as
@ -51,7 +54,7 @@ service provider, you are assigned one of their many IP addresses at random
 to use for the duration of your session.&nbsp; So the site you are visiting
 can determine, for example, that an AOL member just requested a page but
 it cannot determine which AOL member.
-<p>Your IP address is not your e-mail address &mdash; they are two different
+<p>Your IP address is not your e-mail address&mdash;they are two different
 things.&nbsp; Your e-mail address is the address to which your incoming
 e-mail is sent and uniquely identifies you in cyberspace just as your social
 security number identifies you in the real world.&nbsp; Your IP address,
@ -126,9 +129,9 @@ that&nbsp; on its behalf.&nbsp; And your browser will not store a cookie
 without your permission (see the section on <i>Controlling Your Cookies</i>).&nbsp;
 Once a site has stored a cookie, it can read that cookie in the future
 without having to get permission from you.&nbsp; But the site can read
-only the cookies that it has stored &mdash; it cannot read the cookies that other
+only the cookies that it has stored&mdash;it cannot read the cookies that other
 sites have stored.
-<p>Don't be alarmed &mdash; a site cannot write to arbitrary places on your
+<p>Don't be alarmed&mdash;a site cannot write to arbitrary places on your
 disk.&nbsp; The cookies that it stores go into one specific file, called
 your cookie file.&nbsp; And the site can't even write there unless you
 give it permission to do so.&nbsp; Similarly, the site can't read arbitrary
@ -264,7 +267,7 @@ form and then prefill that information onto forms that you encounter in
 the future.&nbsp; The Form Manager saves the information on your local
 machine and not on any website.&nbsp; When the Form Manager prefills a
 form with the saved information, that information is not sent to the site
-until you submit the form.&nbsp; Once again you are in control &mdash; no information
+until you submit the form.&nbsp; Once again you are in control&mdash;no information
 is released until you say so.
 <br>&nbsp;
 <p><b>Divulging your Password</b>
@ -277,7 +280,7 @@ you don't visit often, you might have used the same password everywhere.&nbsp;
 And the same goes for your user name, providing somebody else hadn't already
 taken it.
 <p>So each site that you registered with has a record of two important
-pieces of information about you &mdash; your user name and password.&nbsp; And
+pieces of information about you&mdash;your user name and password.&nbsp; And
 if this is the same user name and password that you always use, an unscrupulous
 site administrator at any one of these sites has enough information to
 go impersonating you by logging in to other sites at which you are registered.&nbsp;
@ -321,9 +324,12 @@ and tell it the name of the site whose page you want.&nbsp; The intermediate
 site requests the page on your behalf, using its own IP address as the
 return address.&nbsp; Then, when it gets the page, it forwards it on to
 you.&nbsp; The site that supplied the page never gets to see your IP address.
-<p>There are several sites that provide such services.&nbsp; Use your favorite
-search engine to find them &mdash; try search words such as "anonymous" and
-"surfing".
-<br>&nbsp;
+
+<p>There are several sites that provide such services. For a list, see <a
+href="http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Proxies/Free/" target="_blank">dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Proxies/Free/</a>. 
+Alternatively, use your favorite search engine to find
+them&mdash;try search words such as "anonymous browsing".
+
+&nbsp;
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