deleuth writes “The de facto on-line connectivity instrument sold along with many Apple computer systems, .Mac, has an online interface during which users can check their ‘iDisk’ while faraway from their own laptop. on the other hand, there’s no Log-Out button in this web interface, so most users just close the browser and walk away… now not realizing that their iDisk has been cached by means of the browser and that any person who needs to can open up the browser, go back to the hyperlink in historical past, and get into their iDisk totally logged in. From here, recordsdata can be downloaded and/or deleted. This seems like a minor safety flaw by way of bad interface design, and podcaster Klaatu (of thebadapples.data) posted this on the discussion.apple.com website online, handiest to have his put up eliminated by using Apple. furthermore, remarks at apple.com/remarks has long gone unanswered. the issue continues to be: there is not any way for the average pc consumer to log-out of their iDisk on public computer systems. a handy guide a rough assessment of any public terminal’s browser history might convey up all varieties of fascinating things.”
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