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Tetrachloride

(8,448 posts) Thu Jan 20, 2022, 09:17 PM Jan 2022

Safari 15 Privacy and probably Security hole

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/01/safari-and-ios-bug-reveals-your-browsing-activity-and-id-in-real-time/

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Safari 15 Privacy and probably Security hole (Original Post) Tetrachloride Jan 2022 OP

Important info - thanks. Pinback Feb 2022 #1

Fixed 1/26 CloudWatcher Feb 2022 #2

Good! Thanks. (nt) Pinback Feb 2022 #3

Pinback

(12,886 posts)

1. Important info - thanks.

Reply to Tetrachloride (Original post)

Sun Feb 6, 2022, 03:18 PM

Feb 2022

I use Brave & Firefox. Only once in a great while do I use Safari. I was hoping to be able to use it after moving to the latest Mac OS, but this gives me pause. I would hope they've issued a patch to address this, but I'll wait for confirmation of that before relying on Safari.

CloudWatcher

(1,923 posts)

2. Fixed 1/26

Reply to Pinback (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 6, 2022, 03:31 PM

Feb 2022

From the demo site referenced in the ARS article (https://safarileaks.com):

Update (January 26, 2022):

Apple released iOS and iPadOS 15.3 and macOS Monterey 12.2 software updates that fix this vulnerability (CVE-2022-22594).

Pinback

(12,886 posts)

3. Good! Thanks. (nt)

Reply to CloudWatcher (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 6, 2022, 04:22 PM

Feb 2022

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