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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. Dear BugZilla morons by MicroBerto · · Score: 2, Troll
    No. If this bug was fixed months ago when it was first detected, then there would have been no problem. However, the slashdot ultimatum was issued and appropriately followed through.

    We will not tolerate ourselves to look stupid while accusing other companies of leaving security holes for months, and then doing it ourselves. Do it again, and we will slashdot you again. And yes, we will defeat your referrer. Thank you, have a nice day. :)

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    Berto