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I know what your friends did last summer

Twitter's publicly available JSON feeds leaked who a visitor is and who their friends are to any site they browsed. Including the feed with a script tag and defining a setter on Object.prototype for the 'user' key captures the data in every browser tested except IE, which the author notes enables targeted spam and social engineering.

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Researcher
Gareth Heyes
Published by
thespanner.co.uk
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