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Why is it not the author of your NIC driver who is responsible for the leak? Per default the driver isn't asking whether to send a packet to Google's IP addres
by foxfluff 5y ago
Why is it not the author of your NIC driver who is responsible for the leak? Per default the driver isn't asking whether to send a packet to Google's IP address.
Here's why: the driver is just doing what it's told to do. The responsible falls on the party who does the telling. If a website tells my browser to load resources from Google, it's not on my cpu or my nic or its driver or kernel or firewall or the browser.
- johnchristopher 5y agoThank you for your comment but this point has already been invalidated. See https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=johnchristopher#30136030 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=johnchristopher#3013... and replace "browser" with "NIC". No need to backtrack. > The website has delivered an HTML document. It's up to the user to do what he wants with it and follow links or not.