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RE: Browser History Hack Compromises User Privacy
From: "Krpata, Tyler" <tkrpata () bjs com>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:01:46 -0400
After just skimming TFA, it looks quite familiar: http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-know-where-youve-been.htm l -----Original Message----- From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 8:39 PM To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: [funsec] Browser History Hack Compromises User Privacy Interesting concept... Via vnunet.com. [snip] Security researchers with Spi Dynamics have demonstrated a techniques that exposes the past search queries as well as websites that a user visited to online publishers.. Websites could use the technique to check if a user has researched its products through search engines. An insurance provider for instance could deploy the method to verify if an client applying for life insurance has ordered cigarettes online. It could also allow Amazon to check if users have been shopping with competing stores. [snip] More: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2165815/researchers-expose-browser - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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