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Re: whatsapp opening url in background


From: Alex <fd () daloo de>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:22:26 +0100

 

Chrome does prefetch and prerender currently
(https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender [4]) in
ancient times it did only DNS lookups. 

Am 2013-11-15 09:21, schrieb Jerome Athias: 

Hi,

fyi
I've seen Chrome (on Mac OSX) doing at least two requests to the
"first domains" of the results of a search
It appears to be like a pre-cache functionality, however I didn't
investigate more (so I don't know if it is related to pre-load / Do
Not Track)
I wonder how it could be used in combination with techniques like
google bombing for tracking or malware...

Regards
/JA

2013/11/15 Frank Habermann <lordlamer () lordlamer de>:
Hi, I have been talking with WhatsApp about this issue during some days and this error is solved in last version 
*2.11.134.* I have been written an advisory for this: http://foosec.com/docs/whatsapp.html [1] Thanks for the info. 
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