Privacy While Viewing Two or More Websites Simultaneously?

[Paws]

Yes. Activate the privacy mode in Firefox for example, it will tell you that an admin can still see all the traffic from all the websites you visit.

Oh wait, you mean webmaster, not admin.

 

[Corny]

no, a different website can not see on what other websites you are. BUT it can see from which website you are coming from when you click a link. so if you click a link on JUB that links to google, google can see that you came from JUB.
also if an image is included the hosting website can see where you are loading the image from. that is for example why imageshack doesn't work here - they block everybody at JUB.

there used to be a security vulnerability with a few browsers where websites could guess at which other websites you have been and got a yes/no, but this has been fixed if you update your browser. also it would be very weird for your employer to use this.

 

[Corny]

you are mixing two things here.

in your first post you wrote about reading a different website while reading a work related website.

if you read something AT work, yes it is very likely that they would check on you.

if they would use the technique that i mentioned above at that work related WEBSITE to check what else you are doing while you visit this website from home, this is a very serious breach of your privacy. it might even be illegal because this is seen as an exploit. ^

 

[Corny]

But obviously not everyone does all their work at work. What I was getting at was that one of the rules the employees were accused of violating involved viewing porn (which they couldn't argue had anything to do with their official work responsibilities) while on "official time." In the reported cases, the accused employees were also doing this on work-issued computers, including laptops while away from the office, breaking a second rule. The fact that the computers were work-issued made it easy for the inspectors to prove their charges.

you were talking about WEBSITES seeing "each other". that stuff that you do on an "office machine" is not secret, should be obvious.

But I can imagine employers trying to go after other employees who are supposed to be doing official work, at the work-related website, while viewing forbidden websites on any computer if there is an easy way technically to do it.

there is no "easy" way to do, and the only way is not even precise as it only tells you something about the past. whether you opened the website 2 seconds ago or before your work time doesn't matter.

i am not sure if you can make much of it, but before i talk myself black in the face - more info here:
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/02/browser-history-sniff.html

 

[star-warrior]

There's an article in the .net magazine (issue no. 207, p.113) about Firefox 4 closing this :visited security/privacy issue.

Here's an online article you might like to read too

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/Privacy_and_the_:visited_selector

 

[Paws]

Does this mean sites like http://www.didyouwatchporn.com won't work anymore?

 

[star-warrior]

Does this mean sites like http://www.didyouwatchporn.com won't work anymore?

If everyone decides to move to FF4. I think it will be still a problem for many, unless they clear their browser cache when they exit their porn sessions.

For your info, it didn't consider having visited JUB forums as having been on a porn site