Financial sites
store private information in disk cache for all to read.
"This included full credit reports, prescription history, payroll
statements, partial SSNs, credit card statements, and canceled checks.
Web servers are supposed to send a Cache-Control: no-store header to
prevent this, but many of the sites are sending non-standard headers
recognized only by Internet Explorer, and others are sending no cache
headers at all. While browsers were once cautious about writing content
received over SSL to the disk cache, today, most do so by default unless
the server specifies otherwise."
This is ridiculous. This is lawsuit material.
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