Seriously: Add WOT famous protection sells and spying on its users browse data!
The browser extensions aids in facilitating and easier to navigate the Internet and in some cases may make the user does not leave their browser window, providing him most of the services available to other office software, and parallel with this, possess the latter powers may constitute a real danger to the data browsing, but goes beyond the reach of computer data and why not every small and large carried out in the digital world.
A week ago, journalists investigative report published on the German television broadcasting NDR were detected from which all the added WOT (Acronym for phrase "Web of Trust") famous across very huge sell user data, including data visit the sites "browsing history", in addition to data another very sensitive financial such as transactions and user IDs ...
In an initial response to the company WOT, it confirmed that users' data sold by unknown which does not specify the identity of users, but Sraanma been Tkdab claims was the company boosted the journalists to identify 50 users of unsold data obtained from intermediaries.
In a statement to Firefox on newspaper The Register, confirmed fully withdrawn for the addition after receiving numerous complaints and a thorough analysis of the work of the add-on, showing that they do not agree to the terms of the Firefox shop, and noted that the store will not accept the addition only after actualized and stop tracking user activity. In the same vein it deleted all of Google, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer WOT add to their stores, but current users of the application have to manually delete the addition until a new update them.
After analysis of the code the addition of a party researcher Rob Wu and put on the site github, show that there is an additional function enables implementation of arbitrary code on any page, including the withdrawal of records and the history of site visits, it may be the reason for the failure to protect the user's identity during Tdtol data .
In a communiqué interview after the uproar caused by the investigation started, WOT confirmed for its ongoing quest to preserve the anonymous user data. After an in-depth study of the matter shows that the preservation of user identities techniques is not enough so I decided to add to withdraw its service from the current browsers stores until a new update, It includes data sharing and portability feature to approve it, while enhancing the protection of the user's identity for the data recorded by the browsers where this attribute is one of the key features that operate by the addition.
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