Internet Explorer considered harmful
Scary Beasts Security
AUGUST 4, 2010
Now that this paper is officially public, the full story of CSS-based cross-origin theft can come out. (As an aside I'd like to note that I contributed little other than review to the paper so credit must go to the other named individuals). For background reading, see my Dec 2009 original post and an update that notes Firefox fixing the issue. In the original post, I state two mitigating factors that prevent the attack being very serious: the fact that quotes and particularly newlines stop the a
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