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Re: [WEB SECURITY] Stealing Search Engine Queries with JavaScript
From: "Ian" <vern () riseup net>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:51:49 -0500 (ACT)
Hi,
Possible uses: -HMO's website could check if a visitor has been searching other sites about cancer, cancer treatments, or drug rehab centers. -Advertising networks could gather information about which topics someone is interested based on their search history and use that to echance their customer databases. -Government websites could see if a visitor has been searching for bomb-making instructions.
There is another use for this information of course and that is in the construction of intelligent agents. I am building an autonomous spatial metadata harvesting tool at the moment and if knew what keywords our researchers were actually looking for, rather than me just guessing, I could return more specific results to them. This is even more important when there are language (spoken not computer) barriers as well. Nice 1 Billy []'s Ian -- Ian Lawrence Centre for Bioinformatics INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA-INPA RUA ANDRÉ ARAÚJO N º .2936 , BAIRRO DO ALEIXO MANAUS-AMAZONAS-BRAZIL Research Program in Biodiversity PHONE: 055-92-3643-3358 CEP. 69011 -970 | Please do not send me documents in a closed | format.(*.doc,*.xls,*.ppt) | Use the open alternatives. (*.pdf,*.html,*.txt) http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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