A security researcher says it's not hard to retrieve a user's browsing history despite the much-ballyhooed InPrivate Browsing feature in Internet Explorer 8, according to ITworld.com.
The feature, often referred to as "porn mode," might keep your browsing history hidden from a spouse or nosy boss, but tests by two European security companies found it easy to crack.
Said Christian Prickaerts, forensic IT expert with Fox IT:
The privacy option in this beta is mainly cosmetic. For a forensic investigator, retrieving the browsing history should be regarded as peanuts.
According to this vnunet.com piece, there might be compatibility issues with older Web sites and advertising numbers might drop as InPrivate Blocking, uh, blocks them. IT Business Edge's Kachina Dunn notes this could bite Microsoft in the butt as well as other advertisers.
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