Re: [whatwg] Security thoughts

2010-08-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 9 May 2010, Perry Smith wrote: > > In HTML5 6.3.1 Relaxing The Same Origin Restriction [1] bullet 3, sub > bullet 3 there is a clause that says that if the domain is reduced down > to something that is on the Public Suffix List, the new value is > rejected. That phrase caused me to paus

Re: [whatwg] Security thoughts

2010-05-09 Thread timeless
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Perry Smith wrote: > If we have a site like official_site.area_subdomain.big.com which relaxes the > restriction to area_subdomain.big.com, it is now exposed to the potential of > an attack from any of the systems within the same area_subdomain including > laptops

[whatwg] Security thoughts

2010-05-09 Thread Perry Smith
In HTML5 6.3.1 Relaxing The Same Origin Restriction [1] bullet 3, sub bullet 3 there is a clause that says that if the domain is reduced down to something that is on the Public Suffix List, the new value is rejected. That phrase caused me to pause. I was wondering about internal attacks. Firs