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They’re back: Browser-sniffing ghosts return

Post by dark_moon » 2014-06-06, 21:07

Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox are vulnerable to easy-to-execute techniques that allow unscrupulous websites to construct detailed histories of sites visitors have previously viewed, an attack that revives a long-standing privacy threat many people thought was fixed.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06 ... e-firefox/

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