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Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty - Stanislaw J. Lec
IE8 privacy feature fails to live up to billing
MUCH TOUTED privacy features built into the second beta version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 browser, which we have been dubbed 'Porn Mode' by some hacks, will not protect you as much as some would claim.
Inprivate Browsing is designed to delete a user's history and other personal data that is gathered and will stop nosy spouses or employers seeing which porn sites you have visited.
However insecurity experts at Fox IT claim it is a doddle to retrieve the history and the privacy option in Internet Exploder 8 is just cosmetic.
Security boffins retrieved data using the remaining records in the history file. Data was also stored in the browsers cache which for some reason remains undisabled by Inprivate. µ
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I called it, MS would never allow any personal data to not be gathered on their system, they have a history of saving every pointless detail, even keeping a db of deleted mail for you, even though you yourself can't access it.. not to mention lots of stuff in the registry that they put in such a format that you can't easily find it with a simple search, yourself that is..
I thuink we are sharing more than information wihtout our consettn already thank you very much! To think that your web browser records every single link that you follow, every picture you see, every site you visit and a list of the last 10 to 20 web sites to which you have been. Source: http://www.cogipas.com/ That is a lot of information these days! We need some protections.
MS is no longer capable to program such a feature. I mean, it is such a bloadware that they can't isolate the code that writes stuff to the disk. They have a culture of bad programming practices and you can't change/write code if you don't change that culture. En example : buffer overflows are know for 40 Years!!! MS still has many buffer overflows in new software. I am curious to test Google Chrome (downloaded it today). Starting from scratch with a proven rendering engine. Could be the killer browser we are waiting for.