- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:26:50 +0100
- To: "'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> [DJW:] > Until last week, there was a licensing conflict that > One other point to bear in mind is that some web sites insist on specific browsers being used for SSL. Part of the reasoning for this is that they want someone to blame if there is a security breach. Some Lynx users forge the User Agent to get into those site, but, in my view, anyone doing so would be at risk of being accused of fraud (the sites tend to be financial organisations). (There is a tradeoff here between the fact that there is a company with a reputation to protect behind commercial browsers and the open source nature of things like Lynx allowing independent verification. In these plug and play days, it would not be difficult for someone to distribute a compromised binary of an open source program.) IANAL -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS. >
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