{"id":10632,"date":"2006-12-06T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T18:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/12\/06\/firefox-can-be-dangerous-to-your-love-life.html"},"modified":"2006-12-06T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T18:39:19","slug":"firefox_can_be_dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/06\/firefox_can_be_dangerous.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox can be dangerous to your love life"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, it’s not because spending all your time online can interfere with your relationships. It’s because some info in it isn’t necessarily well-protected or private for multiple users on the same computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This privacy flaw has caused my fianc\u00e9 and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years.Basically, we share one computer but under separate Windows XP user accounts. We both use Mozilla Firefox — well, he used to use it more than I do but now we don’t really use it. The privacy flaw is this: when he went to log-in under his dating sites (jdate.com, swinglifestyle.com, adultfriendfinder.com, etc.), Mozilla promptly asks whether or not he’d like Firefox to save the passwords for him. He chose never, obviously. <\/p>\n

However, when he logged off his user account, and I logged onto my Windows XP account X amount of days later, I decided to use Firefox because hey — it loaded everything much more efficiently, was better to work on with website designs and is a lot more stable than IE7beta2. Firefox prompted whether or not I’d like it to save my password for logging into my website. I chose never and changed my mind. I went into the Password Manager to change the saved password option from Never to Always and that’swhen I saw
\nall these other sites that had been selected as “Never Save Password.” Of course, those were sites I had never visited or could ever dream of visiting.<\/p>\n

Then I realized who, how and what… and sh*t hit the fan. Your browser does not efficiently respect the privacy of different users for one system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Who’d have thought that Bugzilla would hold so much (non-geeky) drama?<\/p>\n

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(via RISKS<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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