Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >comp.text.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Cascading Style Sheet Is Such A Hazard To Your Privacy ||||| [Thread Next] Re: Cascading Style Sheet Is Such A Hazard To Your Privacy |||||To: NULL Date: 5/3/2006 8:51:00 AM Um... Radium.... Where do you get your information? Was it from eating funny mushrooms? CERT hasn't issued this kind of warning so why should anyone believe you? Radium wrote: > Cascading Style Sheet [.css] is such a hazard to your privacy. It > allows others on the internet to see your monitor and files. It allows > them to copy images on your monitor to their computers. It also allows > them to copy files from your computer to their computers. It is > dangerous. Avoid at all costs. > > CSS isn't stored in the victim's computer. Instead it is stored in the > perpetrator's computer. What it does is it reads everything on the > victim's screen and checks on the victim's visited web pages and can > even read text from any text or word application being used by the > victim. CSS is not a security risk and does not trick the victim's > computer into sending info to the perpetrator. However, this is an > extreme invasion of the victim's privacy. The victim has no idea that > he/she is being violated. The assailant can read text and see any > pictures that happen to be on the victim's monitor without actually > accessing the victim's computer. > > Your computer may not be at all damaged or touched. However, your > confidential information can easily be read by the attacker and anyone > the attacker gives it to. You don't have to download anything, visit > any website, or even use a browser to be attacked. You just need to be > connected to the internet and the attacker can strike you. > > Once again, the victim's computer does not store any part of CSS. All > info and software is stored in the assailant's computer. > ||||| | ||||||
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