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Re: Interesting: Stealing your browser history... withoutJavaScript!


From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:55:02 -0700

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On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Paul Ferguson<fergdawgster () gmail com>
wrote:


On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 4:55 PM, silky<michaelslists () gmail com> wrote:

On 6/14/09, Thomas Raef <traef () ebasedsecurity com> wrote:
I seem to recall that HD Moore (I believe that's his name) showed this
at Blackhat 2006 in Las Vegas, but his did use javascript.

Yeah, it's pretty old. a:visited. *shrug*

Could be a ff-plugin (maybe addition to NoScript) to ban certain types
of CSS selectors and attributes.



I e-mailed Giorgio Maone to ask him about it. :-)


Giorgio told me there's no much he can do about it in NoScript -- see also
the comment thread here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777

- - ferg

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