Re: #469: definition of "private"

OK, let's leave it as is; the delineation is fuzzy and complex, and we shouldn't add precision unless it's accurate.

Cheers,


On 08/05/2013, at 10:00 AM, David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com> wrote:

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> 
> On Tue, 7 May 2013, Martin Thomson wrote:
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>> On 7 May 2013 11:54, David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com> wrote:
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>>> I prefer "single user" as "single user agent" would preclude a shared desk
>>> top proxy supporting multiple user agents as one example. Privacy is a
>>> user concern and should be expressed that way.
>> 
>> I'd finagle that - the proxy is the user agent in that case.
> 
> True, but that was the cleanest example of a private but shared cache.
> Various browsers have options for sharing cookies with / from other
> browsers. I don't see a reason to forbid Firefox from sharing a single
> end user cache with IE or Chrome or etc.
> 

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Received on Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:03:04 UTC