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applied to this characteristic too, especially functionality, usability and reliability. In
addition to that, the prevention of threats also includes that privacy software considers
the exposure to potentially harmful technologies such as JavaScript or Flash. These
technologies are of course not a harmful technology per se but can be abused for example
to install Malware 1 via malicious websites [FSec]. That means that privacy software
can also be directed at the prevention of such an exposures.
Using these defined characteristics, existing tools (such as privacy tools) can be evaluated.
Although this list of requirements does not satisfy the level of detail necessary
for developing software or creating a detailed software requirements specification, it is
suffice to evaluate a set of privacy tools as done in Chapter 5. In addition to that,
it provides a potential basis for future work on requirements specification for privacy
software tools.
1 Malware is malicious software such as trojan horses or viruses
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