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I've been wondering about this for a while but here it goes: - what if every medium sized website (in terms of traffic: 1k pageviews per day), injected backgro

I've been wondering about this for a while but here it goes: - what if every medium sized website (in terms of traffic: 1k pageviews per day), injected background ajax calls for google queries about any number of sensitive issues topics? - what if those same websites used this link[0] or similar for other major services in ajax calls/or iframe with click jacking to send emails on behalf of people which included sensitive information? I wonder what that topology would look like… [0]: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&shva=1 https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&shva=1

DanBC 13y ago
There's a roughly similar browser extension called "Track Me Not". I have no idea if it's any use. I've been told that it's trivially easy to filter this kind of noise. http://trackmenot.org/ http://trackmenot.org/ https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
- cinquemb 13y ago
  If one would consider all the traffic noise, then I can see it being trivially easy (since the traffic would look so much different from everything else), but what if it contained some that weren't really noise? Like if someone piped the output to a database anyone could access? What about for the emails?