Nick Cole

Scotland

Director

Perhaps if instead of a dialogue box that said "do you want to run a script or activex", it actually told us what we were about to unleash then we could make an informed judgement.

Privacy rules are fine provided the principles and guidelines on what may or may not be privacy are adequately understood from a consumer perspective and not how the designer may (in all naivete?) consider appropriate.

Far too often we are left without any understanding of what is involved by clicking yes. It isn't just that we are allowing the process but what the process is about to do thatis important. And why do all these websites (such as Silicon as well) insist on having so many scripts? As these often involve connecting to another server or directory to pick things up like images and so on even the website designers have no idea of the amount of security and privacy breaches they are running.

IE7 is a classic example. If I connect to my router for example it sends three contacts to a Microsoft site via HTTPS. If I use IE6 it doesn't. And these operate without any prompt or other intervention! It would appear that Microsoft's designers themselves either stick a thumbs up to what they are supposed to be doing or portray the rules as something that only applies to other people!