Firefox And Opera Are Leaking Sensitive Data

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And why is this an issue?
Mrk

 

So the issue is its storing screenshots in the users local profile/home, then stating "various users" can access it, without any qualification of what "various users" means or how that data is leaked.

Firefox by default caches ssl secure pages.
SSL is only concerned with in transit security (no extra layer of security is given once the information is displayed on the users browser).

Cheers, Nick

 

If someone has local access to user's browser cache, then the problem is bigger than any would-be leak of data. And it's not a leak of data, because it goes nowhere, hence no leak.
Mrk

 

Clicking through to http://www.geek.com/articles/news/f...till-leaking-sensitive-personal-data-2013027/...

The bug report in question: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755996#c13, read out from there. Storing thumbnails for *any* site including those loaded via HTTP can result in something being persisted that shouldn't have been.