Start Panic : Is it time to press the “panic” button yet ?
There is a lot of talk going around, about the privacy issues in Internet. But no one seems to have pressed the panic button yet. There is always a possibility of a government or an organization with an evil intent to gather as much as data as possible about Internet users. A anonymous proxy can protect users from the big brother from knowing your net activities from their ISP‘s, it is of no use if they are able to get it from the user’s web browsers.
“Start Panic” is a website that basically shows the proof of concept of how websites can find out about anyone’s browsing history, just by adding some scripts. Although this site requires a button to be pressed for it to gather the browsing history, some other site can be using a code that can do it automatically. Start Panic aims to raise public awarness for this privcay issue.
This issue is little alarming for the reason that it is cross browser. It works in all major web browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and Opera. Eventhough this issue has been around for a while from 2007, none of the browsers seem to have noted or tried to fix this issue. Another alarming factor is that normal users do not clear their browser history or cookies regularly. This makes it even more a bigger privacy issue.
For now usage of add-ons like NoScript etc will protect you.
To visit the site click here.
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i never knew that… but is it really possible to retrieve data even without clicking any link… ???
Yeah, it is possible with some scripting.. basically that’s what happens when you visit a site.. the site interacts with your computer through the browser and sets up a small cookie… then with little more scripts and coding, a site would be able to retrieve some of the data, that a browser would be able to supply to it(only whatever a browser would be able to supply)
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