{"id":26,"date":"2013-01-15T17:08:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T17:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2013-01-16T17:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T17:09:43","slug":"osx-saves-everything-youve-ever-downloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/osx-saves-everything-youve-ever-downloaded\/","title":{"rendered":"OSX saves EVERYTHING you’ve EVER downloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to LifeHacker<\/a>, a single command can display every file you’ve ever downloaded on your Mac (through Safari, but still…). This command even includes files you’ve long since deleted.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this is not the first time Apple has had a super-secret way of seeing what sites you’ve browsed<\/a>, and other private information.<\/p>\n

While I’m sure this will be met with “who cares, I have nothing to hide!” that’s not the point. When a user clicks “Clear hostory” in their browser it should do just that. To have an alternate, hidden, location that secretly tracks you is a violation of our privacy.<\/p>\n

Of course, our security minded (read “paranoid”) staff bandied about ways that this could be misused by an attacker and came up with plenty of good ones including that someone with remote access to find this list, and place another file in the same location as a file you downloaded, and then you might run it, thereby further infecting yourself. This is all theoretical of course, but it is a fact that the existence of personally identifiable data you’re not aware of, and cannot remove without a super secret code is a huge data mine for would-be attackers.<\/p>\n

The XVU Drive never tracks you. In fact, in versions without persistence it couldn’t track you if it wanted to as all changes are deleted upon reboot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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