Re: Sicherheitsl8cken in Netscape 2.0

• To: poeck@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Karsten Poeck)
• Subject: Re: Sicherheitsl8cken in Netscape 2.0
• From: jcma@ai.mit.edu (John C. Mallery)
• Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 17:21:13 -0400
• Cc: schoch@cogpsy.uni-trier.de (Volker Schoech), www-cl@ai.mit.edu
• Sender: owner-www-cl@ai.mit.edu

At 9:10 PM 1996-04-29, Karsten Poeck wrote:
>ust in case your German is worse than mine, the text basically says that
>netscape 2.0 has a serious security flaw concernig javascript and that
>netscape 2.01 may fix the problem.
>
>Karsten

Yes, 2.0.1 adds a switch that allows you to turn off Javascript.

The problem is that a Javascript can capture much information about the user and
report it back to a remote host with the user knowing.  It can capture the
bookmarks and
personal info for sure. Don't know if anyone ahs checked to see if it can
capture the page
cache on the client.

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