I know your name, where you work, and live (Safari v4 & v5)
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I know your name, where you work, and live (Safari v4 & v5)
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#2Short summary: Safari autocompletes forms from your private address book, and can be tricked into doing that by Javascript events on form fields named in ways Safari would want to autocomplete; worse, once autocompleted, that data can be read out of the form by the same JS that triggered the event.
Long story short, if you browse to a site with Safari and you have autocomplete on, that site can slurp some stuff out of your address book.
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#4What do other browsers do differently to prevent this from being a problem?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
They do not use your system's address book to fill forms online.
Doesn't firefox autofill forms? I didn't realize that was a safari only feature.
The most important distinction though, is that you have to still select to fill that out manually.
Of course logins are another story - those are automatically filled in. But those are restricted to the page you already entered them on, and you have to decide you want that information filled explicitly.