Hi malware users
Every modern browser to-day has a so-called “pr0n”-button aboard to leave no surfing-traces behind,
but websites are now very well able to record who it is that is trying to surf “anonymously”.
The way this is being done is by offering some-one to visit a unique, never before seen URL,
and then check whether that link has been visited through CSS.
That specific link will then have another color.
Isn’t that the case, then that means that Private Browsing, InPrivate or InCognito mode has not been active.
“Not a very serious issue, but interesting enough to mention in case some-one wants to embroider further on this concept”, reports security researcher Jeremia Grossman.
http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2009/03/detecting-private-browsing-mode.html
Together with his colleague Collin Jackson he designed the following web-page:
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~collinj/research/incognito/
that is able to detect if you use of the “pr0n”-button or not,
Yep readers of this forum the browser-user of to-day is almost completely transparent!
polonus
What do you use for that?
Hi Tech,
I would not use an online proxy, but use the Torpark browser together with Privoxy.
I can imagine when people for instance surf health-related information they do not want that particular part of their clickstream sold to get ad-revenues or later get spammed, and they do not want a third party there to look over their shoulder, this is just one of the many aspects why proxies and encryption should be allowed even against the wish to collect all our information by Big Brother who always has our best interests at heart.
But then on the other hand you have to obey the rules set by the laws of the land as well, because there is a new proposal in the States to give you 30% added jail-time if you were performing a cybercrime using a stealth proxy to do so, even when it was by only doing some extra clicks in the browser:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/extra-jail-time-for-proxy-users.ars
So use a proxy but do it wisely and within the framework set out by the law. But every country has other restrictive laws as in France for some time all encryption was “verboten”, and remember the song “when the going gets narrow keep your eyes on the sparrow”,
the old pol