Start Panic!
Just saw this nice demo of the a:visited browser history security issue in action. Visit startpanic.com and click “start” to see it in action.
Read about how this security hole works here. Hopefully flashy demos like this will bring more attention to this issue.
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May 11th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Funny (or rather, scary) thing is this bug has been around for a long long time. I remember seeing this 2 years ago.
May 18th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Yeah it's nothing really new, sad to see it's still an issue though.
There's another similar website at http://linuxbox.co.uk/stealing-browser-history-wi... , which I've found to be a lot faster the startpanic … plus it doesn't make my browser hang
November 4th, 2009 at 4:20 am
Thanks for sharing these info with us! I was reading something similar on another website that i was researching. I will be sure to look around more. thanks