Feb
08
2008
Snooping on a User’s Browser History with CSS

image Niall Kennedy demonstrates a very clever trick for spying on a user’s browser history.  You can’t actually retrieve the list (thankfully), but you can compare it to a known set of links.  How? By exploiting the way CSS applies different styles to visited links!  He recommends it as a way to selectively display social networking links which you have evidence the user actually uses, but the possibilities for creative evil helpfulness here are endless.

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