When using potlatch it seems Yahoo is trying to gather my phone number as well as my credit card info, so my firewall warns me. Running ethereal on the PPPoe shows a lot of interesting activity as well. Not much idea what it means but very entertaining.
Have no idea why they would need my credit card, kind of eerie.
討論
由smsm1於2008年3月4日08:36發表的評論
What makes you think that it is asking for your credit card?
由katpatuka於2008年3月4日08:43發表的評論
I've added paypal.com to my hosts file
由Richard於2008年3月4日12:14發表的評論
How _can_ Yahoo gather your phone number or credit card info? What is it that makes you think that's happening?
由lewis_pusey於2008年3月4日16:35發表的評論
I'm with katpatuka on the pay pal hosts file. Just how do you do that say on PCcillin? or even a fedora box. My apologies for any alarm. I think maybe pay pal chatter is matching randomly information my firewall is blocking (such as credit card, phone number). Next time my firewall kicks off a warning I'll study it in more detail and post it here if relevant.
Lewis
由lewis_pusey於2008年3月4日17:47發表的評論
Sent a screenshot to TomH, the firewall says the culprit is http://maps.yahooapis.com/trac
由Richard於2008年3月5日16:40發表的評論
You should get a less paranoid firewall! There is no way that maps.yahooapis.com/track.php is sending anything even remotely like a phone number. It sends the latitude and longitude of the area you're looking at, and that's about it. Any firewall dim enough to think that a long number is automatically a phone number deserves to be filed under "crying wolf".
由HannesHH於2008年3月5日16:57發表的評論
/me takes a random guess at PeerGuardian2 Tinfoil Edition?
由lewis_pusey於2008年3月6日16:12發表的評論
TomH informs me the problem is the lat long strings. Guess I'll set my firewall on "insecure" : )