Edge: private sessions too intrusive Microsoft’s browser – ZDNet France

That should not settle Microsoft’s image in the eyes of those who accuse Windows to represent a risk to the personal data of its users. Forensic Focus The company has indeed published in October 2015 an analysis of the Edge behavior during private sessions. And it proves indiscreet against historical sites visited in these supposed private and amnesic sessions. Forensic Focus has indeed determined that many navigation information was stored in a Windows file database.
 

Here we are far from an easily accessible and readable history by any computer user: this information is stored in a database format particular data Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), which requires the use of specific programs to be able to read the contents.

As explained Forensic Focus, Edge this feature seems to be due to the proximity of its code with that of the latest version of Internet Explorer, which shares the same defects and stores certain information in common databases. This unfortunate storage from Edge seems to have been caused by improper handling of cache tools used by Edge, who retain settings and historic sites even in incognito windows.
 

The US site be partially confirms the Verge managed to reproduce the bug described by Forensic Focus and Microsoft says his side have opened an investigation to determine the best way to solve this problem. Pending a possible fix, just remember that Microsoft’s browser private browsing is surely sufficient to cover your tracks to the general public, but will not be enough to escape a thorough analysis of the machine led by an expert user.
 
 

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