Get browser history via CSS hacks

Jeremiah Grossman has demonstrated an interesting way to sniff out browser history via CSS hacks. IE7 RC1 is smart enough to block the site, but FireFox lists my history without any complaints. Spooky. The script it embedded on the page, and it appears that basic technique involves setting the visited link color via CSS on a group of links to common sites, and then getting the computed values of the links and seeing which ones have the visited color. Very clever way to hijack someone's history: Read more at this article

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