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Is it a good idea from a security standpoint to disable Referer headers in the browser? What discomforts will you have to deal with?

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So what kind of discomfort will you have to deal with?

Will it break websites?

Or is it just a win for privacy?

You can disable the Referer headers in Firefox like this:

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Is your communication in same subnet safe when an attacker initiates a ARP Poisoning attack?

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Is it possible that the Man-In-The-Middle can eavesdrop on communications in your subnet? (meaning between computers in your subnet and not outside of it)

I am learning networking and I made this assumption from my course ma… Continue reading Is your communication in same subnet safe when an attacker initiates a ARP Poisoning attack?→