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General Software Discussion / Re: Start Panicking! ... and polishing those tin foil hats.
« on: April 25, 2009, 11:02 PM »
I'm not sure I get this. So they show you stuff from your history and your bookmarks? So what? That doesn't mean THEY, or anyone else, is able to see your history.
JavaScript runs in the browser, and has access to the same info the browser does. The program runs in YOUR browser, gets information from YOUR browser and shows it TO YOU. How exactly is this a security breach?
Seems like this is just a trick based on people's ignorance of how this stuff is supposed to work. I didn't trace through the code, but I don't see anything really amiss here.
Start panic indeed. That's all they're trying to do. Or maybe that and collect some e-mail addresses.
JavaScript runs in the browser, and has access to the same info the browser does. The program runs in YOUR browser, gets information from YOUR browser and shows it TO YOU. How exactly is this a security breach?
Seems like this is just a trick based on people's ignorance of how this stuff is supposed to work. I didn't trace through the code, but I don't see anything really amiss here.
Start panic indeed. That's all they're trying to do. Or maybe that and collect some e-mail addresses.