It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say researchers

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  1. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

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    From the section Technology 31 July 2017
     
  2. mirimir

    mirimir Registered Member

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    Damn. Using social-media account admin access to deanonymize browsing data. People ought to compartmentalize.
     
  3. NormanF

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    Turning on eh - the so-called porn mode doesn't actually provide privacy when browsing online.

    If people want find out your secrets - its not easy to keep prying eyes from finding them.

    Then again, if privacy is a consideration, be careful what you do on the Internet.
     
  4. mirimir

    mirimir Registered Member

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    More like, be careful how you do it :)
     
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    It's also worth noting that the click-stream was derived from a number of browser-plugins - Web of Trust being the main named culprit.

    In addition, note the information leakage in the url stream - it includes the query string which - in the example given for google translate - had the text for translation in it.
     
  6. Palancar

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    Compartmentalize with VM's for each such site, and use TOR for the workspace within those machines. That's what I would do if I were to access such a "place".
     
  7. mirimir

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    WTF? Web of Trust is selling click-stream data?

    I mean, that's what we've worried about. But to know that it's done. That's gobsmacking.
     
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