If you run Windows 10 and you use the Edge Browser, you might want to think twice. You see, if you run it in InPrivate mode which is supposed to cover up your porn surfing activities used when you don’t want to leave a trace of your web browsing activity on your computer isn’t actually private at all. Security researcher Ashish Singh has discovered that, instead of wiping browsing data as soon as the private window is closed, the information is stored in the browser’s webcache file. In other words, anyone looking at the container_n table used to store web history will be able to see what sites you surfed to.
#fail.
Apparently Microsoft is aware of the issue and is working on a fix. But until that fix appears, you may want to use another browser if you want to do something that you don’t want others to know about.
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#Fail: Microsoft Edge Is Storing Your InPrivate Browsing History
If you run Windows 10 and you use the Edge Browser, you might want to think twice. You see, if you run it in InPrivate mode which is
supposed to cover up your porn surfing activitiesused when you don’t want to leave a trace of your web browsing activity on your computer isn’t actually private at all. Security researcher Ashish Singh has discovered that, instead of wiping browsing data as soon as the private window is closed, the information is stored in the browser’s webcache file. In other words, anyone looking at the container_n table used to store web history will be able to see what sites you surfed to.#fail.
Apparently Microsoft is aware of the issue and is working on a fix. But until that fix appears, you may want to use another browser if you want to do something that you don’t want others to know about.
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