Chatroulette Privacy Flaws Exposed By Researchers

networkworld.com:

Perhaps there is finally something to deter Chatroulette.com users from their more offensive behavior: University researchers say that users of the popular video-chat site may not be as anonymous, or as private, as they think.

In a paper posted online this week, researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and McGill University outline three different types of attacks that could be launched against Chatroulette users.

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Comments

[Tarich]

08:15 AM on 07/16/2010

Chat roulette is a bunch of bored pervs playing with themselves, or so i've heard. Let them be exploited. It's probably a good thing.

Real roulette is that one that the Russians play. What's it called again?

[NC4Obama]

03:06 PM on 07/14/2010

"For example, Chatroulette is now testing a new feature called Localroulette, which connects people from specific cities with one another. "Phishing techniques usually involving tricking people into thinking that you are from particular place and you have particular identity," Ternovskiy said. "This will not exactly work here."

Unless of course you use a Proxy to trick the IP thing... which is easy.