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There’s a newly discovered bug in Internet Explorer that allows any currently visited website to learn the contents of the address bar when the user hits enter. This feels important; the site I am at now has no business knowing where I go next.

Tags: Internet Explorer, leaks, Microsoft, searches

Posted on September 28, 2017 at 2:21 PM26 Comments

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uh, new tab + same old cache/history? September 28, 2017 5:12 PM

“new site, new tab.”

Full ctrl-shift-del, quit, verify halted, new process start, new tab.

Even that doesn’t get everything. If it takes more than 2 seconds you need a new machine.

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