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		linshunghuang on June 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Tricking the user to access history using... You might want to check out the research paper "I Still Know What You Visited Last Summer Leaking browsing history via user interaction and side channel attacks" ( http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2011/PAPERS/2011/paper010.... ). The paper describes several similar (if not the same) attacks.

kedean on June 9, 2014 [–]

Another interesting, more recent paper (I couldn't find a link to the actual pdf, but I'm sure people are resourceful):

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2516712

This one describes an attack to not only steal browser history, but to reconstruct pages from the users cache.

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