Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-04 Thread Byte Soup
On 3 February 2013 23:19, Bruno Girin wrote: > On 03/02/13 18:09, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > > > > > > On 3 February 2013 16:00, Bruno Girin > > wrote: > > > > > > > > That makes sense in context - failed logins combined with the changed > > hardware would trigger

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On 03/02/13 18:09, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > > On 3 February 2013 16:00, Bruno Girin > wrote: > > > > That makes sense in context - failed logins combined with the changed > hardware would trigger an alert. From a service point of view it's > very frustrating for a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 3 February 2013 16:00, Bruno Girin wrote: > > That makes sense in context - failed logins combined with the changed hardware would trigger an alert. From a service point of view it's very frustrating for a bank to freeze an account without some kind of notification - my bank have frozen my acc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On 3 February 2013 14:55, Byte Soup wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2013 10:53 AM, "Simon Greenwood" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 3 February 2013 10:34, Byte Soup wrote: > >> > >> oops! I posted the wrong link, it was from a related link at the bottom > of that page > >> > >> http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/tech

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On Feb 3, 2013 2:33 PM, "Sam Pizzey" wrote: > > The first? I use Wireshark 'legitimately' all the time! :) > > Same here :). There are plenty of good reasons for monitoring traffic in and out of a computer. There are also a lot of people who would prefer that you didn't for the reason that we are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Sam Pizzey
The first? I use Wireshark 'legitimately' all the time! :) On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Bill Baker wrote: > On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 14:05 +, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > if you wanted to find out. For that matter, a bit of packet sniffing > > would also tell you what is going in and out. > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Bill Baker
On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 14:05 +, Simon Greenwood wrote: > if you wanted to find out. For that matter, a bit of packet sniffing > would also tell you what is going in and out. Wouldn't this be a prime case for Wireshark if worried about it? You could make it the first "legitimate" rather than "da

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 3 February 2013 13:55, Byte Soup wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2013 10:53 AM, "Simon Greenwood" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 3 February 2013 10:34, Byte Soup wrote: > >> > >> oops! I posted the wrong link, it was from a related link at the bottom > of that page > >> > >> http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/tech

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Byte Soup
On Feb 3, 2013 10:53 AM, "Simon Greenwood" wrote: > > > > > On 3 February 2013 10:34, Byte Soup wrote: >> >> oops! I posted the wrong link, it was from a related link at the bottom of that page >> >> http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21058994 >> >> > > That's almost certainly specfically related

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 3 February 2013 10:34, Byte Soup wrote: > oops! I posted the wrong link, it was from a related link at the bottom of > that page > > http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21058994 > > That's almost certainly specfically related to Windows as Windows is the only OS that I'm aware that binds its li

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On 03/02/13 10:16, Byte Soup wrote: Hi all, just wanted to get the Ubuntu UK list take on this story from the BBC below http://bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21304049 Yes the guy was using windows, but will our browsers also give up this sort of in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Byte Soup
oops! I posted the wrong link, it was from a related link at the bottom of that page http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21058994 On Feb 3, 2013 10:24 AM, "Colin Law" wrote: > On 3 February 2013 10:16, Byte Soup wrote: > > Hi all, just wanted to get the Ubuntu UK list take on this story from the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 February 2013 10:16, Byte Soup wrote: > Hi all, just wanted to get the Ubuntu UK list take on this story from the > BBC below > > http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21304049 > > Yes the guy was using windows, but will our browsers also give up this sort > of info down to the hardware level wh

[ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Byte Soup
Hi all, just wanted to get the Ubuntu UK list take on this story from the BBC below http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21304049 Yes the guy was using windows, but will our browsers also give up this sort of info down to the hardware level when running a Linux box too? I know we can use a user a a