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Life & fun · June 8, 2019

Invading privacy by inspecting localhost

PoC to demonstrate how local service discovery can be used to violate privacy. - wybiral/wtf

Invading privacy by inspecting localhost launched on June 8, 2019 with 5 votes, #1,123 of 2,757 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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