I've just been reading Stallman's piece on patents. The link to the Xerox patent is seriously scary and a great representation of everything Stallman says is wrong with patents. I hope 'Mike on ads' knows he is in serious patent trouble.
- D On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Turns out that this CSS exploit has been known for a very long time > (reported on Firefox in 2002), and remains unresolved [1]. It does have > serious implications: The more you know about the user, the easier it is to > con them [2], or perhaps you'd like to sound out your visitors' political > inclinations [4]. > > Simple exploits are provided by Markus Jakobsson [2] and Daniel Tsadok [3]. > For a bit of good, honest fun, see how delicious.com users have tagged > your browsing history [5]. > > 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777 > 2. > https://www.indiana.edu/~phishing/browser-recon/<https://www.indiana.edu/%7Ephishing/browser-recon/> > 3. http://yodayid.blogspot.com/2006/08/css-exploit.html > 4. > http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2008/08/can-i-guess-you.html > 5. > http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2008/08/a-tag-cloud-for.html > > Yup. Security is difficult. Every little feature opens new opportunities > for exploits. > > > Gabriella Turek wrote: > >> >> http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/ >> > > > ======================================================================= > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > lost by reason of this transmission. > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > other act on the email. > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > altered or corrupted during transmission. > ======================================================================= > >
