[Just to prove that nobody's mind is filthier than a fundie's. There isn't any other use for a "privacy mode," right?]
The latest Internet browser by Microsoft includes software that allows users to conceal the various websites they have accessed. See FOX News. The feature is called InPrivate Browsing, and is nicknamed the "porn mode" because it lets users hide the sites they have viewed at the click of a button.
After this "porn mode" setting is chosen, other people who use the computer will not be able to see which sites have been accessed. Other browsers have similar tools, but the IE 8 tool is much more visible. InPrivate allows the cache to be cleared from your computer, and will not save your browsing or search history, cookies, form data or passwords.
Microsoft says the tool is designed for people using public or shared computers. Yes, this is just what we need, a tool to make it easier for child porn addicts to look at innocent children at the library without the next user finding out about it. Also, IE 8 should be a huge boon to philandering spouses and teens cruising for porn on their parents' computers. I wonder if Microsoft will advertise this new IE version as the "Porn Enabler" version?
This browser was available last night as a "beta" version, but the next Microsoft Windows operating system will include this browser.
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You are not allowed to look at any kind of porn in a library. If you're caught, you get kicked out and banned. Its pretty hard to view porn privately in a room filled with other people using computers. They will see your screen.
Child porn is illegal, no matter where you look at it. If that's the first place your mind goes, you're sick.
Sure, I mean who needs privacy for their E-mail accounts, forum accounts, online banking accounts, Department of Defense website accounts...?
"Yes, this is just what we need, a tool to make it easier for child porn addicts to look at innocent children at the library without the next user finding out about it."
What sick ass porn have you been looking at!?
Who the hell would look at ANY porn at a public terminal, let alone the illegal stuff?!
Cache nuking is fairly easy to do already, just hidden away on a lot of systems. I'm guessing this makes the process even easier.
Not that I would go back to using IE on my private systems.
"After this "porn mode" setting is chosen, other people who use the computer will not be able to see which sites have been accessed. Other browsers have similar tools, but the IE 8 tool is much more visible. InPrivate allows the cache to be cleared from your computer, and will not save your browsing or search history, cookies, form data or passwords."
They all have those options you nit.
"Microsoft says the tool is designed for people using public or shared computers."
Which is why all the other browsers have the same fucking options . Microsoft finally got off their lazy asses and made it easily accessible, that's all.
"Yes, this is just what we need, a tool to make it easier for child porn addicts to look at innocent children at the library without the next user finding out about it. Also, IE 8 should be a huge boon to philandering spouses and teens cruising for porn on their parents' computers. I wonder if Microsoft will advertise this new IE version as the "Porn Enabler" version?"
You seem preoccupied by porn. The rest of us, however, can think up more pertinent uses for such a feature on a browser.
Hell, the first uses I thought of included keeping people out of my e-mail and being able to definitively keep my wife from looking for clues as to her birthday and Solstice gifts by using my web history. (Maybe that's a problem--it's a same-sex marriage and we don't actually celebrate Christmas. :-)
@ Sooze: Hopefully you and my wife won't meet and share ideas!
Or maybe you work under a tyrannically atheist dictator and you need the privacy mode to post stupid things on Rapture Ready and troll FSTDT.
Or maybe you like to watch lesbian porn.
Also note that this browser is lame, and most people are jumping to Firefox.
InPrivate allows the cache to be cleared from your computer, and will not save your browsing or search history, cookies, form data or passwords.
In Firefox, you can do that with ctl-shft-del. It can happen automatically with tools-options-privacy and check "always clear my private data". You can do it with older IE, too; just not with one click.
InPrivate doesn't offer anonymous surfing or e-mail. People who really want to hide what they're doing (e.g., kiddie porn, spammers, credit-card thieves) use anonymous proxies, zombies or anonymous remailers to hide their online activities.
Yes, this is just what we need, a tool to make it easier for child porn addicts to look at innocent children at the library without the next user finding out about it.
Yeah, cause everyone goes to the library to look at kiddie porn you sick fuck. The filter doesn't cover the screen you fucking retard it just makes it so there are no temporary files, cookies or anything of the sort. You fucking pervert.
This is really an odd phenomenon, why is it that everything remotely related to privacy is always associated with child porn by these people? Homosexual marriage is a step away from child pron (I put this in line with privacy because what they do in their own homes is none of my business), privacy on the internet in any way, shape, or form is connected to child porn, adult stores are the gateway to child porn, it goes on and on. No wonder priests are the ones caught with kids, they're taught that's the only expected outlet for them.
Also, WTF IE, get with the times mang.
Or maybe, you know, it could be so that if you're using the computer at the library to access your bank and pay your bills, it can protect you from an identity thief getting your info...I dunno, just a thought.
Fundies are far too preoccupied with sex to be taken seriously.
@ a mind far far away: Firefox doesn't work for me, so I usually stick with IE. Nobody get on my case for this -- IE just works better on my computer.
Sure, make it impossible for paedophiles to find child porn, its much better for them to live out their sick fantasies at the nearest preschool. [/sarcasm]
Why not just let the police monitor sites that distribute that stuff and arrest anyone who browsers them?
Yes, this is just what we need, a tool to make it easier for child porn addicts to look at innocent children at the library without the next user finding out about it.
Now who is the pervert? the guy who watch porn, or the guy who wants to see what the previous person looked at, hmm?
And for the record, don't you think the library and other public internet places, has a fucking log?
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