Browser History Sniffing Is Back

Discussion in 'privacy problems' started by marktor, Dec 4, 2011.

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  1. marktor

    marktor Registered Member

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    Interesting post at Slashdot:

    You can checkout if your browser is affected here: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cachetime/

    It seems to require java so noscript users that have java disabled are safe. This seems to only look for certain websites in a list. I wonder if there is anyway this could be used to view your entire web history? Also this exploit only shows what sites have been visited in your cache. So if you have your browser set to clear the cache on exit it will only show the sites you visited this session.
     
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  2. Digizik

    Digizik Registered Member

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    thank you for the link! my browser history/ cache is safe! :D
     
  3. Hungry Man

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    Doesn't seem to require Java for Chrome.

    EDIT: By design it has to try to look for specific sites - it can't just get all of them.
     
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  4. CloneRanger

    CloneRanger Registered Member

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    @ marktor

    Thanks for posting :thumb:

    Tested with IE6 & FF v3.6.14 after clearing my cache, & then ...

    Even though i visited the BBC to test, i did NOT visit Facebook or Twitter directly. The BBC has pages at both www's.

    So from what i could observe/gather, it "seems" as if a mixture of other mechanisms "might" be involved as well as CSS, such as Scripting/Java/Requests. Both www's "seemingly" using different approaches to try & achieve their aim.

    I don't have Java, & i tested with Scripting/Requests both disabled & enabled.

    ffpocns.gif

    ffpocSC.gif

    Also the other test linked to on there http://oxplot.github.com/visipisi/visipisi.html

    oxie6poc-scr.gif

    oxiFFpoc-scr.gif
     
  5. Hungry Man

    Hungry Man Registered Member

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    It's definitely iffy at best and I'm not too worried.
     
  6. vasa1

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    Not Java, but javascript. At least that's what I gathered from the comments over @ slashdot.
     
  7. Dude111

    Dude111 Registered Member

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    That wasnt too reliable when i went to it (Showed sites i hadnt been to,etc)

    This page only listed 3 sites i went to (There was over 20 in my history)

    http://wtikay.com/all
     
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