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Browser History Sniffing Is Back

Posted by timothy on from the this-time-it's-interstitial dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Remember CSS history sniffing? The leak is plugged in all major browsers today, but there is some bad news: in a post to the Full Disclosure mailing list, security researchers have showcased a brand new tool to quickly extract your history by probing the cache, instead. The theory isn't new, but a convincing implementation is."

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  1. Re:jacked or tracked: it's your choice by uufnord · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    OMG THAT IS SO THOUGHT-PROVOKING!!!11!!111!11

    What did he say about unattributed quotes and unreferenced personal pronouns?