alexalex Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Extensions are little helper programs that make life on the Internet a tad more comfortable for the user. Some change the way we access information on the Internet, others add extra features and functionality to a website, and others help you stay safe and secure online. Most Internet users who use extensions never bother to look at the extension?s source code to verify that it is only doing what it is supposed to do, and nothing else. The official extension repositories verify extensions before they are made available for public download. And while that often works well, we have seen extensions slip through that verification process in the past. This guide looks at one of the ways that normal Internet users have to verify that their extensions are not phoning home. Phoning home in this context means communicating with sites that they should not communicate with in first place. Here is what we need: Fiddler, a web debugger that you need to install on your system. Please note that Fiddler is only available for the Windows operating system, and that it requires the Microsoft .Net Framework..... http://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/19/how-to-verify-that-a-browser-extension-is-not-phoning-home/ remixedcat 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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