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History Sniffing In the Wild

Posted by Soulskill on from the smells-fishy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Kashmir Hill at Forbes documents a recent study by UCSD researchers showing that 'history sniffing' is being actively used by mainstream ad networks like Interclick as well as popular porn sites like YouPorn in order to track what other sites you visit. The vulnerability has been known for almost a decade, but this paper documents hundreds of commercial sites exploiting it today (PDF)."

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  1. Re:Plug the leak in Firefox by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You shouldn't even need to go that far, Mozilla plugged most of the leak. I'm not sure if this made it into 3.6 though... might want to wait for 4.0?