Monthly Archives: May 2006

Security Breach Part II (aka Tracking Other People’s Search Habits Using TinyURL and Google)

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

As I discovered earlier today, if you accidentally leave your Google account signed in on another computer, anything that is searched for on that computer using Google will be recorded in your Google account’s Personalized Search Search History.
But what if you didn’t just leave your account signed in accidentally, but actually managed to remotely log [...]

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Security Breach!

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Here’s a good example of why the “if you’re not doing anything wrong, why worry?” argument against privacy invasion is useless and misguided. Just because you aren’t doing anything illegal, does that mean you want your family to be able to see what you’ve been searching for without you realising?  Of course not — [...]

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