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Revision as of 19:35, 3 February 2010
, 3 February 2010Moved suggestion from 'History' to 'Secure Storage and Clearing of Private Data'
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**Effectively allows for a 'Private Browsing' session on a page by page or site by site basis. | **Effectively allows for a 'Private Browsing' session on a page by page or site by site basis. | ||
**Would be useful to prevent blocked pages or sites showing up on a list of blocked pages and sites - otherwise it defeats the purpose! Perhaps no list, just a one-time thing; or perhaps a password would give access to the list? | **Would be useful to prevent blocked pages or sites showing up on a list of blocked pages and sites - otherwise it defeats the purpose! Perhaps no list, just a one-time thing; or perhaps a password would give access to the list? | ||
**Could be paired with 'Clear Recent History' exemptions (see Privacy>Secure Storage and Clearing of Private Data) to make three types of page or site: Block from storage, Normal, Keep Always | |||
*Ability to disable the history for the current session with a click/keycombo | *Ability to disable the history for the current session with a click/keycombo | ||
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**#melt, dissolve, or powderize the hardware -- protects against everyone | **#melt, dissolve, or powderize the hardware -- protects against everyone | ||
**Multiple overwrite is not stronger than merely zeroing the file. It is an attempt to beat the rare case of somebody who can examine the disk surface, but it fails because modern disks will commonly write to different locations. Disks do sector/track substitution and they have write heads that wander a bit. | **Multiple overwrite is not stronger than merely zeroing the file. It is an attempt to beat the rare case of somebody who can examine the disk surface, but it fails because modern disks will commonly write to different locations. Disks do sector/track substitution and they have write heads that wander a bit. | ||
*Ability to exempt certain web sites or individual pages from being cleared when 'Clear Recent History' is used, so that regularly used pages do not get removed when others are, eg search engines, email sites, news sites, social networking sites, etc. | |||
**Should apply to all records including cookies, cache, login details, etc. for that page or site. | |||
**Could have an option in 'Clear Recent History' to override this. | |||
**Could be paired with page/site history blacklist idea (see Privacy>History) to make three types of page or site: Block from storage, Normal, Keep Always | |||
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