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Pinga
January 13th, 2007, 07:41 AM
'SafeCache is a Mozilla Firefox browser extension that protects your privacy by silently defending against cache-based tracking techniques. It allows embedded content to be cached, but segments the cache according to the domain of the originating page.'

'SafeHistory is a Mozilla Firefox browser extension that protects your privacy by silently defending against visited-link-based tracking techniques. It allows offsite visited links to be marked only if the browser's history database contains a record of the link being followed from the current site.'

http://www.safecache.com/

http://www.safehistory.com/

http://crypto.stanford.edu/sameorigin/

Rasheed187
January 13th, 2007, 02:10 PM
It looks very interesting but the first thing that comes to mind is that perhaps browser maker should implement these kind of features themselves. I would like to have some feedback about these tools, I wonder if they really work or not. ;)

Pinga
January 15th, 2007, 04:35 AM
{QUOTE-> It looks very interesting but the first thing that comes to mind is that perhaps browser maker should implement these kind of features themselves. I would like to have some feedback about these tools, I wonder if they really work or not. ;) <-QUOTE}
I'm running both without problems. As to whether they 'really work', well, theory is all we have right now :dry:

Anyone?