Re: ACTION-278 Hiding metadata for security reasons from Tim Berners-Lee on 2010-02-09 (www-tag@w3.org from February 2010)

From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:29:34 -0800
To: John Kemp <john@jkemp.net>
Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, ashok.malhotra@oracle.com, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, Tyler Close <tyler.close@gmail.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, "Mark S. Miller" <erights@google.com>
Message-Id: <996EDCA0-EEE8-4CFD-911A-5DA36C3E8436@w3.org>

On 2010-02 -08, at 07:41, John Kemp wrote:
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> Yes, I believe that to be true too - apart from the case where a URI may end up being transmitted to another site "automatically" by means of the Referer HTTP header.


Generalizing, you could argue that client software is written so as to store and remember and spread URIs, unlike passwords. So passwords are stored hidden away in some way, but browsing history and bookmarks are not.
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> Regards,
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> - johnk
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Received on Tuesday, 9 February 2010 01:26:56 UTC