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July 28, 2005
The P3P Story
P3P not PSP. P3P has something to do with privacy policies as xml/client readable documents, in other words IE was supposed to detect a web site's privacy policy and show some obscure icon and block cookies if a web site didn't provide a p3p document or if the privacy policy said the wrong thing. Or something like that. Microsoft was trying to protect the user's privacy and they marketed the heck out of it.
In any case, IE 6 had P3P support if I remember right, and everyone at the time was jumping up and down, oh we got to get an audit of our damn cookies and find out what they all do and put this privacy policy together so that IE 6 doesn't display that stupid icon and break our web site. It was fun. It sure wasted a lot of folks time I don't know about at other web sites.
But boy, MSFT sure solved those privacy issues with that implementation. If it weren't for that privacy icon, I don't know what I'd do. There have been so many times I've not gone to a web site because that privacy icon showed up...Ok, I'll stop.
Privacy in 2000-2001 was the issue du jour. Phishing is the issue today. More thoughts on phishing soon because it's a lot more complicated than people think.
Posted by rebron at July 28, 2005 10:38 PM
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