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From: "Tony Bowden" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] US Government and Data Retention.
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> I've examined (and I've played with a *lot* of them) tend to ignore these
> issues, as (a) they're hard to deal with properly (b) they pretend they're
> rare on most sites (although tabbed browsing is becoming increasingly
> common, and anyone who has built a site with session management knows
> just how much of a problem the 'back button' issue actually is - note
> that many banking sites explicitly terminate your session if you try to
> use it!), and (c) for the most part everything just evens out.
In relation to (b) the two bank sites I use don't terminate but don't allow
you to go back to the previous screen. There would seen to be various
reasons for it including repeating the instruction twice if one didn't think
it had gone through the first time.
Nick Landau
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