Researchers unveil COWL, a new system to protect web surfers’ privacy

Confinement with Origin Web Labels, dubbed COWL, achieves both privacy for the user and flexibility for the web application developers flexibility The average user surfing the web can have their privacy compromised by malicious JavaScript code hidden in seemingly legitimate websites, says University College London Professor Brad Karp. The new system provides a property known as confinement which has been known since the 1970s, but proven difficult to achieve in practical systems like web browsers.”]

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