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I know where you've been

Jeremiah Grossman · Jeremiah Grossman · 11 August 2006

Grossman's browser history-stealing proof of concept: write a style block colouring :visited links, create an anchor per candidate site, then read getComputedStyle's colour to learn whether it was visited. Sixty-odd banks, webmail and social sites are probed silently in the sidebar, with no server round trip and nothing for the user to notice.

Record

Researcher

Jeremiah Grossman

Published by

Jeremiah Grossman

Date

11 August 2006

Topic

Other

In the archive

• Ranked #4 in the 2006 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Tags

• css
• javascript
• dom
• deanonymization
• browser-fingerprinting
• side-channel
• info-leak

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