Friday, December 12, 2003

Be careful out there.

This is about the newly reported spoofing bug in MS Internet Explorer. Always be sure you know where your browser is pointed and where your information is going. If you're using Opera or Firebird or Mozilla, don't assume that there aren't similar bugs in your browser.

A new security exploit?.

Don Park: "It's like discovering that everything you designed was built on a gigantic turtle that just woke up."

As Don recommends, I did a View Source. This is what the URL looks like. With a quick glance it looks like it's from Microsoft, but you're actually viewing a page at zapthedingbat.com. This isn't entirely new. I'm not sure what the %01 is about. I guess it's a problem if it's the action attribute of a form element, where you can't see the URL. Takeaway: look in the Address part of the browser window when you're typing into a form and if it's the wrong place, hit the Back button and resume your life.

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9:23:55 PM