full-disclosure - Re: [WEB SECURITY] Stealing Search Engine Queries with JavaScript

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Message-ID: <36013.vern.1159570309.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:51:49 -0500 (ACT)
From: "Ian" <vern@...eup.net>
To: "Billy Hoffman" <Billy.Hoffman@...dynamics.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, websecurity@...appsec.org
Subject: Re: [WEB SECURITY] Stealing Search Engine Queries
	with JavaScript

Hi,
> Possible uses:
>
> -HMO's website could check if a visitor has been searching other sites about cancer, cancer
> treatments, or drug rehab centers.
>
> -Advertising networks could gather information about which topics someone is interested based on
> their search history and use that to echance their customer databases.
>
> -Government websites could see if a visitor has been searching for bomb-making instructions.

There is another use for this information of course and that is in the construction of intelligent
agents. I am building an autonomous spatial metadata harvesting tool at the moment and if knew
what keywords our researchers were actually looking for, rather than me just guessing, I could
return more specific results to them.
This is even more important when there are language (spoken not computer) barriers as well. Nice 1
Billy
[]'s
Ian

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