Full Disclosure: Re: whatsapp opening url in background

[Alex <fd () daloo de>]

Chrome does prefetch and prerender currently
(https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender [4]) in
ancient times it did only DNS lookups. 

Am 2013-11-15 09:21, schrieb Jerome Athias: 

> Hi,
>
> fyi
> I've seen Chrome (on Mac OSX) doing at least two requests to the
> "first domains" of the results of a search
> It appears to be like a pre-cache functionality, however I didn't
> investigate more (so I don't know if it is related to pre-load / Do
> Not Track)
> I wonder how it could be used in combination with techniques like
> google bombing for tracking or malware...
>
> Regards
> /JA
>
> 2013/11/15 Frank Habermann <lordlamer () lordlamer de>:
> Hi, I have been talking with WhatsApp about this issue during some days and this error is solved in last version 
> *2.11.134.* I have been written an advisory for this: http://foosec.com/docs/whatsapp.html [1] Thanks for the info. 
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