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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:Easy work-around for now by RPoet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sorry, a space snuck into the line. It's supposed to read:

    user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.onun lo ad", "noAccess");

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    "Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
  2. Re:The most disturbing thing about this... by Gerv · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I believe we're still waiting to get inline loads blocked within mail messages (i.e. for web bugs).

    Your annoyance it totally righteous, given the massive effort you made to get this feature implemented. Right? :-)

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    Gerv