Sites Guilty of Hijacking History

Gunkerty Jeb writes "A recent study launched by the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science to determine the scope of privacy-violating information flows at popular websites shows that popular Web 2.0 applications such as mashups, aggregators, and sophisticated ad targeting are teeming with various kinds of privacy-violating flows. Ultimately the researchers determined that such attacks are not being adequately defended against."

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Re:CmdrTaco ...

[gstoddart]

CmdrTaco: Do you EVER read any submission before publishing?

Before you piss and moan ...

This study comes as a result of the increasing complexity of JavaScript web applications propagating privacy-violating information flows. ‘Privacy-violating information flows’ is a general term which can be subcategorized into four areas of nefarious activity: cookie stealing, location hijacking, history sniffing, and behavior tracking. Their goal was to draw attention to the prevalence of history sniffing at high traffic sites.

Trying reading TFA before you whine too loudly, those words are a direct quote, and, apparently not a typo.

Not saying that sometimes the editors shouldn't proof read more, but it's important to actually know the difference.

Re:Less Than One Percent is Teeming?

[Reziac]

Much more interesting and enlightening, the entire report:

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/lerner/papers/ccs10-jsc.pdf