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virionnwAug 1st 2005 10:30AM

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I guess that's one way to look at it, though with the people normally savvy enough to know these tricks they tend to have a faster connection (though I do like free, so I can't blame ya.) I think the real purpose of this is to avoid the software, I just meant that there was another way to avoid the proccess in general, and it just seems nobody on any of the sites that posted the link to boingboing has acknoledged it yet, especially considering it was an already existing feature of the browser and required little time to uncover and exploit (the suggestion to disable it that I saw predated this fix posted in the article.)

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