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"PinterestFacebookSnooping: It&amp;#39;s more widespread and thorough than you think. Take your actual computer&amp;#8212;it&amp;#39;s snooping on you. Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego (shout out to my hometown!) report that certain web browsers allow web sites to secretly record the places users visit. That includes banking sites, political blogs, and porn. For almost ten years, security experts have known that it&amp;#39;s possible to do but this is the first public evidence.\nThe snooping works on Firefox, Internet Explorer, and older versions of Chrome and Safari. While user names and passwords are not at risk, your browsing history is. With just a few lines of coding, sites can activate the info-gathering and create a profile about you.\nThe UCSD team calls it &amp;quot;history sniffing.&amp;quot; Kind of a funny name but not a funny act&amp;#8212;no matter who does the snooping, or why.\nAaaaaaaaaaand my two cents on snooping among us real people: It&amp;#39;s never a good idea. If you hate porn and you want to know if he looks at porn, ask him to his face.\nLet&amp;#39;s say you suspect he&amp;#39;s secretly seeing other people and you think he meets them on a dating site. Well, if you think history sniffing your guy&amp;#8212;or glancing at any info that wasn&amp;#39;t intended for you&amp;#8212;is a &amp;quot;small act&amp;quot; because he is &amp;quot;probably in the wrong anyway,&amp;quot; step back and look at the big picture. You&amp;#39;re getting caught up in details. The problem is larger: that of distrust.\nInvestigating someone is one act of distrust. If you have doubts or suspicions, ask him about them. If his shady behavior or horrible track record causes you not to trust him, don&amp;#39;t date him. It will be better for both of you. Anyway, why put yourself through the agony of uncertainty and doubt? Peeking at someone&amp;#39;s history&amp;#8212;or his inbox, never mind that it was open&amp;#8212;is a big DON&amp;#39;T.\nDo you borrow your boyfriend&amp;#39;s laptop? Have you looked at his web browsing history? What were you looking for? What do you think of these sites secretly creating a profile of you?\nMore Ways to Get Glamour\n*Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10!\nEnter the latest Glamour sweepstakes!\nFollow us on Twitter!\nAdd us to your iGoogle homepage.*\nPhoto: Hemera Technologies"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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