Your web history is not safe

Are you concerned about the fact that your web history may not be private?

  • Yes

    Votes: 39 42.4%

  • No

    Votes: 53 57.6%
  • Total voters
    92
Well, im safe.. It did not find any sites in my history.. my pc is safe! hahah :cheer:
 
Internet rule number one... don't put anything on the internet that you don't mind sharing with the whole world.
 
Garyvdh said:
Internet rule number one... don't put anything on the internet that you don't mind sharing with the whole world.
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But now: Internet rule number two... don't take anything off the internet that you don't mind the whole world knowing about. :eek:
 
Hmm - when I turn on safari's private browsing Startpanic panics and the browser crashes.
 
It is interesting how they do this. It is a CSS vulnerability. They don't read your browser history, because that is not accessible. Rather the javascript on the site runs through a database of site links and checks the colour in which the link is displayed in your browser to see it you've visited each specific site. It then reports the positives.
 
Gatecrasher said:
It is interesting how they do this. It is a CSS vulnerability. They don't read your browser history, because that is not accessible. Rather the javascript on the site runs through a database of site links and checks the colour in which the link is displayed in your browser to see it you've visited each specific site. It then reports the positives.
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I also found it interesting when I saw how it is done. I initially thought it is a vulnerability in the browser history or cookies, but the reality is more brute force and strangely elegant.
 
Potentially every byte you've typed to access a website or search a term in a search engine is stored and recorded, along with your IP address, date and time.
 
Arthur said:
Potentially every byte you've typed to access a website or search a term in a search engine is stored and recorded, along with your IP address, date and time.
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Exactly.
For as long as you're logged into a Google account, Google tracks all your visited sites anyway.

With millions on internet users, who cares what I've been browsing?
 
charlie_82 said:
Exactly.
For as long as you're logged into a Google account, Google tracks all your visited sites anyway.

With millions on internet users, who cares what I've been browsing?
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Millions of users makes no difference - it takes but seconds for an authorised agency to get your full history, every site, every click, every search term entered ... scary.
 
Arthur said:
Millions of users makes no difference - it takes but seconds for an authorised agency to get your full history, every site, every click, every search term entered ... scary.
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Wouldn't they need you IP for that? And it would have to be a fixed one...?
 
Wow! I had forgotten about a lot of those websites. Ouch Im owned...but thank goodness all stuff I am not worried about :D
 
They'd have to go the extra mile with dynamic ip users and contact the owner of that ip range, find out which isp uses that range, subpoena the isp or Telkom for the details of the user who was connected at that time using that specific ip address.
 
Using Neotel I noticed my IP changes every single time I connect (with Neotel it is not possible to remain connected, they drop your connection far too often so that you HAVE to reconnect often).
 
Unless I was selling drugs and children on the internet there is nothing to worry about... I mean even the odd song here and there... Why would they come after a SA teen who d/led 1 little song???
 
Interesting, but definately not relaible. Picks up 12 sites, one of them is startpanic itself, but does not picckup mybroadband.

Suppose it shows that it can be done, but so what the fff. Weldone to them, here is there noddy badge.
 
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