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Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

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Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

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post #70

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>It can be activated by clicking the Shift key three times. Windows Sticky Keys entered the room.

Hilarious memories of hitting this when playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Was this a shared memory, specifically with regard to Sticky Keys and Return to Castle Wolfenstein? I thought it was a unique problem with me and my friends lol

Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

#82

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I believe this is also why 911 doesn't show up in iOS/Android call logs

That and they dont want butt dialing 911 to be easy

Quickly press the power button 5 times if you have an android phone and see what happens. This has got to be the absolutely worst idea ever and it's enabled by default!

Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

#83
post #35

The gov.uk Design System calls this the "Exit a page quickly" pattern [1], with an associated component [2]. It can be activated by clicking the Shift key three times. There's this nice blog [3] that explains why they chose Shift instead of other keys, and also gives a nice overview of the pattern. [1] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/exit-a-page-qu... [2] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/…

This is nice but how, as a user, do you learn it exists?

Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

#84
post #71

(a class="quickBrowserEscape ..." target="_blank" href="https://www.google.ca/") Need to leave site for your safety? Quick Escape $('.quickBrowserEscape').on('click', function () { document.body.style.opacity = 0; document.title = 'New Tab'; window.open('https://www.weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html', '_blank'); window.location.replace($('.quickBrowserEscape').attr('href')); // removes current page session DOES NOT WORK IN…

This would also leave intact cookies, local/session storage, indexeddb, caches. All of which abusers do actually check, when controlling their victims.

I'm sure 99% don't? Unless your abuser is a CS major

Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

#86
post #84
post #71

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This would also leave intact cookies, local/session storage, indexeddb, caches. All of which abusers do actually check, when controlling their victims.

I'm sure 99% don't? Unless your abuser is a CS major

There are tools which exist to make things such as this accessible to non-CS major perpetrators.

Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

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post #81

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Hilarious memories of hitting this when playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Was this a shared memory, specifically with regard to Sticky Keys and Return to Castle Wolfenstein? I thought it was a unique problem with me and my friends lol

It was pure comedy when someone hit it mid-engagement.

And then the spamming of the communication that would follow.

Those pre-canned German voices were so great.

Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

#88
post #84
post #71

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This would also leave intact cookies, local/session storage, indexeddb, caches. All of which abusers do actually check, when controlling their victims.

I'm sure 99% don't? Unless your abuser is a CS major

I wonder if Hans Reiser would have checked...

Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

#89

But when the Vancouver PD are beating you up, you wont have time to load the page to locate the quick escape button.

That's funny, right before this I was just reading about how some idiot I knew from back in the day beat the shit out of some stranger on the SkyTrain for his headphones. Maybe it's time to realize how fucked Vancouver is and that the cops aren't the problem

Vancouver is fucked in many ways but general safety is not one of them. Quality of life is quite good if one can afford.

Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

#90
post #71

(a class="quickBrowserEscape ..." target="_blank" href="https://www.google.ca/") Need to leave site for your safety? Quick Escape $('.quickBrowserEscape').on('click', function () { document.body.style.opacity = 0; document.title = 'New Tab'; window.open('https://www.weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html', '_blank'); window.location.replace($('.quickBrowserEscape').attr('href')); // removes current page session DOES NOT WORK IN…

This would also leave intact cookies, local/session storage, indexeddb, caches. All of which abusers do actually check, when controlling their victims.

A quick check shows that they don't store anything as cookies or any other browser storage.

The thing that still works is the back button after the redirection to Google, and you can still un-close the tab with Ctr-Shf-T which pops the Google page with back history intact. They have "cache-control: max-age=0" which probably should be changed to "cache-control: no-store". Still, the back button has the history if the user clicked links. Improvements could be:

- Recommend the usage of incognito mode.

- Blank the page immediately with "document.body.innerHTML=''" before the page replacement, as the replacement alone can have a delay and the abuser could see a glimpse of the police page. Blanking is immediate.

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