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Ajax For Evil: Spyjax - Find out where the users been. With great power comes great responsibility.

Ajax For Evil: Spyjax - Find out where the users been

With every advancement in technology we face the threat of it being used for evil purposes. This is the case with AJAX. AJAX has a ton of great uses but one form of negative AJAX has taken life: Spyjax. Spyjax, as I know it, is taking information from the user's computer for your own use -- specifically their browsing habits. By using CSS and JavaScript, I can inject anchor links into the page and tell whether you've been to the link's URL. Main - browsersec - Google Code - Browser Security Handbook land. WordPress Tips Part 1.