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Re: [Full-disclosure] [WEB SECURITY] Stealing Search Engine Queries with JavaScript
- To: "Billy Hoffman" <Billy.Hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] [WEB SECURITY] Stealing Search Engine Queries with JavaScript
- From: "Ian" <vern@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:51:49 -0500 (ACT)
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
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Ian
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