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Sep 15, 2002, 11:30pm

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 15, at 08:27PM
from the where-are-you-going-where-have-you-been dept.

Mike S. writes "Mozillazine (http://www.mozillazine.org/) has pointed users to this story (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2122261,00.html) at ZDNet UK which breaks the news about a privacy bug discovered in in all Mozilla builds up to and including 1.2a as well as browsers based on Mozilla such as Netscape 6/7, Chimera and Galeon. The bug (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145579) allows a web site to track where you're going when leaving the site whether you use a link, a bookmark or type a URL into the address field. This page (http://members.ping.de/~sven/mozbug/refcook.html) has a demonstration of the bug and instructions on patching it via a user.js file."

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Sep 16, 2002, 7:08pm

Thanks for the tip, but why would anyone care where you're going *from*
a site? I don't think webmasters are sitting there thinking "Gee, I
wonder where all my visitors go after they come to my site..."

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Sep 16, 2002, 8:02pm

*shrug* some people are extremely freaked over their privacy, even if it's a
complete stranger that they'll never talk to.

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Sep 17, 2002, 9:45am

lol

Sep 17, 2002, 1:46pm

[View Quote] Say you loaded a bookmark to your ftp site when you left?

Referer: ftp://gooberking:gooberspass at goobers.server.owned

Supa

Sep 17, 2002, 2:02pm

I suppose that could be a concern, except I don't know too many people
who bookmark FTP sites in their web browser. Most people I know use an
FTP program like WS_FTP or CuteFTP to get their FTP stuff done. Still,
I'm sure the Mozilla folks will have it all patched up in no time.

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Sep 17, 2002, 4:55pm

LOL, yeah! Putting it as a bookmark is a security risk in itself! :-P

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Sep 17, 2002, 6:08pm

so is leaving you aw password on save, or saving all your outlook passwords
for e-mail or for msn, icq, yahoo, etc. but its a risk that if taken, saves
alot of time

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Sep 18, 2002, 2:10am

but as far as im concerned anyone can take a look at my e-mail. I don't save
any other passwords. But putting it as a bookmark would just make it so
blatantly obvious to be a security risk that it just seems stupid. :-P

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Sep 21, 2002, 12:58am

Really this information is very valuable to some webmasters (and
companies).... You would not believe the sheer ammount of statistics you can
generate from one web server log file.

Information on how visitors got to a site, and where/when/how they leave is
already analized.

Check out... http://demo.webtrends.com/reports/ormdcs.wlp/index.html

That is a sample Web Trends report. Use the menu at the bottom left to
change the info you see.

-Jeremy

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