RE: User Auth.

• To: "'Nathan Neulinger'" <nneul@umr.edu>, "'Robert S. Muhlestein'" <robertm@teleport.com>
• Subject: RE: User Auth.
• From: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
• Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:18:08 -0800
• Cc: "'S.W. Cheung'" <swcheung@hkimd.cig.mot.com>, "'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>

I'm not so sure it's a good idea. I don't like trusting browsers to do
the right thing -- they're big programs. (It's bad enough you have to
trust huge OS kernels.) It's better to exit the program and let the OS
make sure that no info from the old program image leaks. It's even
better to log out.

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>From: 	Robert S. Muhlestein[SMTP:robertm@teleport.com]
>Sent: 	Tuesday, March 26, 1996 11:27 AM
>To: 	Nathan Neulinger
>Cc: 	S.W. Cheung; www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>Subject: 	Re: User Auth.
>
>On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
>
>> I've suggested a "Unauthenticate"  menu option to netscape many times, but
>> it's not like they ever listen to users.
>> 
>> -- Nathan
>
>This is a great idea.  Anyone suggested this to Netscape and the
>others? 
>

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