Private browsing gets more private

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Private browsing gets more private

Today, most web browsers have private-browsing modes, in which they temporarily desist from recording the user’s browsing history.

But data accessed during private browsing sessions can still end up tucked away in a computer’s memory, where a sufficiently motivated attacker could retrieve it.

This week, at the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Harvard University presented a paper describing a new system, dubbed Veil, that makes private browsing more private.

 

[The_Librarian]

That's what you guys think.

 

[Johnatan56]

Once the data is decrypted, it will need to be loaded in memory for as long as it’s displayed on-screen. That type of temporarily stored data is less likely to be traceable after the browser session is over. But to further confound would-be attackers, Veil includes a few other security features.

And if the user has it displayed on screen and yet leaves the machine/has other screens so it's still displayed, etc. it might still dump to the drive. This doesn't truly solve the problem, just reduces the chance of it being dumped.

 

[Quey_Quick]

So much effort just to watch pron.

 

[Ninja'd]

So much effort just to watch pron.

I detest browsing porn incognito. You know that feeling when you find that one perfect porn video you saw years ago and then you stumble upon it while watching other vids. Then you accidentally close it and Incognito mode says screw you and laughs at how pathetic you are for not remembering the title.

 

[Ho3n3r]

I detest browsing porn incognito. You know that feeling when you find that one perfect porn video you saw years ago and then you stumble upon it while watching other vids. Then you accidentally close it and Incognito mode says screw you and laughs at how pathetic you are for not remembering the title.

Porn videos have titles?! :wtf:

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

You should worry more about what's recorded on other systems as you browse, not so much your local PC.

 

[The_Librarian]

You should worry more about what's recorded on other systems as you browse, not so much your local PC.

^ this.

Your ISP, for starters.