{"id":37358,"date":"2019-03-24T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T15:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=37358"},"modified":"2019-03-24T15:24:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T15:24:58","slug":"internet-security-closing-browser-after-logout-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/internet-security-closing-browser-after-logout-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet security: closing browser after logout, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about internet security: the tutor continues about closing the browser after logging out.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI begin in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/internet-security-closing-browser-after-logout-part-0\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> about closing the browser after logging out, which numerous sites seem to encourage now.<\/p>\n<p>A relevant question seems to be, &#8220;Does closing the browser automatically end your session?&#8221; I&#8217;d argue the answer is no, not necessarily. While I&#8217;m no expert on the subject, experience as well as research suggest that a session can persist after the browser closes. Not everyone necessarily agrees with me, however, and perhaps which browser is being used can change what happens.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe scenario imagined here is that the user logs out but perhaps forgets to do so for every open tab at the site of login. As I mention in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/internet-security-closing-browser-after-logout-part-0\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>, some sites will still allow access through the tabs where logout hasn&#8217;t happened, even if logout has happened at another one. Then, closing the browser after logout disrupts the user context: if someone else sits down to the computer, they don&#8217;t see open tabs. Theoretically, they could check your history, then return to the site where you&#8217;ve been logged in. Therefore, logging out from all relevant tabs seems important.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to continue about the true effect of closing the browser after logout.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\n<\/p><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/security.stackexchange.com\/questions\/89690\/why-do-you-need-to-close-your-browser-window-after-logging-out-of-a-website\">security.stackexchange.com<\/a><\/p><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.petersondave.com\/cookies\/Session-Cookies-in-Chrome-Firefox-and-Sitecore\/\">blog.petersondave.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about internet security: the tutor continues about closing the browser after logging out. I begin in yesterday&#8217;s post about closing the browser after logging out, which numerous sites seem to encourage now. A relevant question seems to be, &#8220;Does &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/internet-security-closing-browser-after-logout-part-1\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Internet security: closing browser after logout, part 1<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2956],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37362,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37358\/revisions\/37362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}