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For the Ultimate in Secure Web Applications, Microsoft Clones Your Browser, Monitors Your Every Move

Web Security Tool Copies Apps’ Moves
Technology Review

Imagine a sci-fi future in which a clone of you is modified so that its free will is limited to acts that are morally sound. Now your behavior and thought patterns are compared to it in real time, and if you ever do anything the clone wouldn’t, the thought police swoop in and shut you down. That’s sort of what Microsoft’s new web security invention does, except for web apps.

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