Firefox Greasemonkey Extension Security Problem 443
Mr2001 writes "A recent thread on the Greasemonkey mailing list suggests that the popular Firefox extension is fatally insecure. It seems rogue pages can read any file from your disk and send it to any site, using an XmlHttpRequest. Time to uninstall GM?"
It's about time (Score:4, Funny)
http://www.dreamsyssoft.com [dreamsyssoft.com]
gauntlet (Score:4, Funny)
Quick, lets band together with a magician and a warrior and stomp those bow&arrow shootin mofos before they take over the internet!
GreaseMonkey Problem (Score:2, Funny)
1000 greasemonkies on a thousand keyboards... (Score:3, Funny)
Our Fault (Score:5, Funny)
We can blame God for all kinds of things like hurricanes and Godzilla but it's a safe bet that we brought THAT scourge upon ourselves.
Re:More Ammo (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Is that really a problem? (Score:4, Funny)
Nice try Bill, we know it's you.
Re:gauntlet (Score:5, Funny)
But, but, but (Score:2, Funny)
Rock paper cissors (Score:4, Funny)
Re:gauntlet (Score:5, Funny)
Re:gauntlet (Score:5, Funny)
Re:GreaseMonkey Problem (Score:5, Funny)
It's Microsoft's fault that people have to install insecure extensions to make web work like it should have worked in the first place.
Re:Is that really a problem? (Score:2, Funny)
You know, there are also other OSes than windows...
Re:Our Fault (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, now! We all know perfectly well that Godzilla was a result of the United States dumping radioactives into ocean waters, part of their plan to keep on supressing Japan after the war. After all, if Tokyo hadn't been leveled by Godzilla every 6 months, Japan would have taken its rightful place as ruler of the world!
unsecure (Score:2, Funny)
Internet Explorer is way more secure and reliable. I went to a porno site yesterday and a pop-up asked me if I'd like to learn how to increase my penis size! How'd they know?!!! They must be reading my mind!
The next day, IE automatically took me to that site when I opened it up! In fact this page showed me a list of other sites I might like to visit like explicit hentai, rape videos, and scat! It was as if me and my browser mind-melded!
I like that when I was asked to pay for the penis-enhancing pills that I was redirected to site 135.34.65.256 instead of having enlargeyourlittlemember.com in my history list (wanna surprise the wife..)
It's been three months and I haven't got my pills yet. I think the postman is swiping them. (always wondered how he could steer his mail jeep and hand out mail at the same time.)
Where was I? Oh yeah, Firefox is a more secure browser, just don't use monkey grease.