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Privacy Leak in Mozilla and Mozilla-Based Browsers

Posted by timothy on from the where-are-you-going-where-have-you-been dept.

Mike S. writes "Mozillazine has pointed users to this story at ZDNet UK which breaks the news about a privacy bug discovered in in all Mozilla builds up to and including 1.2a as well as browsers based on Mozilla such as Netscape 6/7, Chimera and Galeon. The bug allows a web site to track where you're going when leaving the site whether you use a link, a bookmark or type a URL into the address field. This page has a demonstration of the bug and instructions on patching it via a user.js file."

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  1. Re:The most disturbing thing about this... by cpeterso · · Score: 4, Funny


    Mozilla is open source. Why haven't YOU fixed this bug yet?

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    cpeterso
  2. Re:Dear Slashdot morons by Neon+Spiral+Injector · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have they also disabled people leaving Bugzilla to go to Slashdot? Okay, I know that was bad.