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Re: Cascading Style Sheet Is Such A Hazard To Your Privacy |||||

From: "bucketofsquid" <twells@---.--->
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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