Chrome for iOS Has Serious Privacy Flaw in Incognito Mode [video]

Posted by MrRio on Thursday October 03, 2013 @08:01AM
from the parall.ax dept.

http://parall.ax/blog/view/2959/chrome-on-ios-7-leaks-searches-in-incognito-mode

Searches are leaked across from incognito mode to the normal browser. This is especially bad given that Chrome has a unified search bar.

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Re:Chrome for iOS Has Serious Privacy Flaw in Incognito Mode... by PhantomGremlin on Thursday October 03, 2013 @08:43PM (#6493086)

Pardon my cynicism, but it's hardly in Google's self-interest to have a true "incognito mode" in any browser that you use.

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Re:Chrome for iOS Has Serious Privacy Flaw in Incognito Mode... by anxiousest on Thursday October 03, 2013 @11:12AM (#6489447)

It's why the word Incognito in Chrome for iOS has an asterisk next to it:

"On Chrome for iOS, due to platform limitation regular and incognito* tabs share HTML5 local storage, which is typically used by sites to store files on your device (client-side caching) or to provide offline functionality. This means the same sites can always access their data in this storage in both regular and incognito* tabs. Incognito* tabs will still keep browsing history and cookies separate from regular tabs, which are cleared once those tabs are closed."

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?hl=en

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Re:Chrome for iOS Has Serious Privacy Flaw in Incognito Mode... by nextw33k on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @05:08AM (#6513719)

Sounds to me like we need an option like delete cookies for local storage as well.

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