Safari 4's Messy Trail

Posted by kdawson on Saturday May 23, 2009 @07:53AM from the if-disk-space-were-infinite-and-free dept.

Signum Ignitum writes "Safari 4 comes with a slew of cool new features, but extensive data generation combined with poor cleanup make for a data trail that's a privacy nightmare. Hidden files with screenshots of your history, files that point back to Web pages you've visited and cleared from your history, and thousands of XML files that track the changes in the pages in your Top Sites can add up to gigabytes of information you didn't know was kept about you." Some of Safari's bloat is kept in quite obscure locations; it takes a fairly knowledgeable user to find it and clean it up. You can avoid some of the worst of it by disabling Top Sites.

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Re:Oh expoitable by larry+bagina · 2009-05-23 08:23 · Score: 1, Troll

Too bad OS X isn't multi-user. Too bad OS X doesn't let you password protect your account.

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Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Re:beta software by jvkjvk · 2009-05-24 01:45 · Score: 1, Troll

I have a feature where you get $1,00,000. Unfortunately, in the implementation I have to take out a life insurance policy on you and then kill you.
Hey, the feature is great, what are you complaining about?