Here's a couple of better dissections of the subject:
http://knol.google.com/k/a-short-history-of-cross-site-scripting-viruses-worms#
And this CSRF gmail hack (still possible in the wild I believe): http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/google-gmail-e-mail-hijack-technique/
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Austin William Wright <diamondmagic@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> <mailto:jd@twingeckos.com>> wrote:Except XSS is specific to HTTP or Javascript, not strictly HTML. Email
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> I always send both... It's 2009, plain text was out in 1985 :)
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> And html allows you to send the gift that keeps on "giving":
> http://www.technicalinfo.net/papers/CSS.html
clients (with exceptions, old versions of Outlook for one example)
usually either cannot load external content or won't do it without
permission.Correct, which is the subject of this thread!
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