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Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

From "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com
Date 2022-01-04 19:40 +0100
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On 1/4/22 10:19 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
> And this is why putting stuff into /etc/hosts is basically never the 
> right answer. :)

Au contraire!

Among other things, the host table is the best possible place to block 
access to certain unwanted domains. For example, if you add these entries:

 > 0.0.0.0         facebook.com
 > 0.0.0.0         www.facebook.com
 > 0.0.0.0         hi-in.facebook.com
 > 0.0.0.0         gl-es.facebook.com
 > 0.0.0.0         twitter.com
 > 0.0.0.0         www.twitter.com

you can never be tricked into accessing Facebook or Twitter (for me, 
ONCE is far too many times), and if you add

 > 0.0.0.0         bing.com

then bing-redirections will fail every time (and alert you to their 
noisome and  all-too-common presence).

And likewise, you might want to access other machines within your LAN by 
name, but your operation is not big enough to warrant bothering with an 
internal DNS, or you might need to access outside systems that, for 
various perfectly legitimate reasons, are kept off the public DNS.

--
JHHL

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Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:10 +0100
  Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2022-01-03 23:20 +0100
    Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:20 +0100
      Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2022-01-03 23:40 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
      Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-04 00:30 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 01:00 +0100
        [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 01:10 +0100
          Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2022-01-04 19:20 +0100
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2022-01-04 19:40 +0100
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 19:40 +0100
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2022-01-04 21:30 +0100
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 19:40 +0100
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-04 20:40 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 21:00 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-04 22:10 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-05 06:20 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 14:50 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-05 18:30 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 18:50 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-05 19:50 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 22:00 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2022-01-04 21:00 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-04 22:30 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-05 06:20 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-05 13:50 +0100
            Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 19:50 +0100
      Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
    Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
  Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-03 23:40 +0100
    Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
      Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 00:30 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2022-01-04 00:40 +0100
          Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2022-01-04 00:50 +0100
          Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 00:50 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com RP <reyadmin@gmail.com> - 2022-01-04 00:50 +0100
  Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 07:00 +0100
    [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 13:00 +0100
      Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 13:20 +0100
    GUIs (was: Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-01-04 15:00 +0100
      Re: GUIs (was: Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 16:30 +0100

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