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Non-Microsoft Browsers Have Spoofing Flaw

Bad News About Firefox Security

15 posted on 02/10/2005 8:43:25 PM PST by yellowhammer
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To: Bush2000

Ping

17 posted on 02/10/2005 8:46:17 PM PST by yellowhammer
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That's actually misleading. After reading more about that vulnerability, it is not a vulnerability in the browsers per se, it is a vulnerability in the IDN standard, or more precisely, in the introduction thereof to a public not accustomed to dealing with the possibility of non-ASCII characters in hostnames. The only reason IE is not vulnerable is because IE still doesn't support IDN/Punycode, even after it's been around for 3-1/2 years.
20 posted on 02/10/2005 9:15:46 PM PST by B Knotts
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