76% of Web Users Affected By Browser History Stealing

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @03:00AM from the seems-like-it-should-be-more dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Web browser history detection with the CSS:visited trick has been known for the last ten years, but recently published research suggests that the problem is bigger than previously thought. A study of 243,068 users found that 76% of them were vulnerable to history detection by malicious websites. Newer browsers such as Safari and Chrome were even more affected, with 82% and 94% of users vulnerable. An average of 63 visited locations were detected per user, and for the top 10% of users the tests found over 150 visited sites. The website has a summary of the findings; the full paper (PDF) is available as well."

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Re:Uh oh... by RJFerret · 2010-05-19 03:21 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Nah, it was the collection in your history of Disney.com, gurl.com, Barbie.com, JustinBieberMusic.com, GirlsOnlyForum.com...actually...the gurl.com in there might enhance your "bad girl" persona.
When you played the barbie dress up game, did you dress her as a rocker chick?