Status: Untriaged Owner: ---- CC: [email protected] Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-All Area-Misc
New issue 8388 by [email protected]: Privacy leak from using non-incognito history database to color links in incognito mode http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=8388 Chrome Version : 1 Other browsers tested: Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue: Safari 3: FAIL Firefox 3: N/A IE 7: N/A What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Visit http://www.example.com/ from a non-incognito window. 2. Open an incognito window 3. Visit a page with a link to www.example.com, e.g. data:text/html,<a href="http://www.example.com/";>link</a> What is the expected result? Link to www.example.com is blue. What happens instead? Link to www.example.com is purple. Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if possible. Although the primary goal of incognito is to avoid leaving traces on the local hard drive of the user's browsing activities, users are likely to have increased privacy expectations in Incognito mode and so the benefits of showing visited links as purple are likely outweighed by concern over sites' ability to use this information to track the user's history. (See http://crypto.stanford.edu/safehistory for more details on history sniffing attacks.) -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
