We're not here to judge anyone on what they get off on, but if you're hoping to keep your porn habits secret, you very likely won't be able to for much longer.
The extraordinary claim was by biotech software engineer Brett Thomas, who believes that all it takes is a hacker to access "identifiable access logs for just one of the websites that know your name, and view logs for just one of the adult websites you’ve visited, it could infer with very high probability - beyond plausible deniability - a list of porn you've viewed."
What does that mean in plain English? Simply put, even if you've watched porn in Incognito Mode, wiped your browser history afterwards and dumped the laptop in a molten lava pit, there's still a record of you accessing porn on that website because most porn websites have sophisticated methods of tracking its website users.
When you've accessed a website, your browser leaves a global identifier - a footprint, essentially - that can be traced and tracked. As Thomas describes it, "the next big internet privacy crisis could expose the private and potentially embarrassing personal data of regular people to their neighbors."
"All that's needed are two nominal data breaches and an enterprising teenager that wants to create havoc."
Start making excuses now, people.
Via BrettPThomas.com
