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Re: JavaScript to grab email (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel L. Smith)
Wed Feb 21 20:14:18 1996

Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:50:39 -0800
To: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: "Daniel L. Smith" <dls@JavaJoint.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

At 12:00 PM 2/21/96 +0000, Martin Hamilton wrote:
>More privacy than security, but ...
>
>PS It seems that you can't turn JavaScript off :-(
>
>From: Jyri Kaljundi <jk@digit.ee>
>To: cypherpunks@toad.com
>Subject: JavaScript to grab email
>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:33:21 +0200 (EET)
>
>Another annoying feature in JavaScript and Netscape. Have a look at
><http://www.popco.com/grabtest.html>

        Where is the script?

        It seems to me that you could do the same thing with ftp.
Have a frames document where the html for one of the panes comes through
anonymous ftp instead of http
	       Daniel L. Smith, Petaluma/Sausalito, CA
        dls@JavaJoint.com   www.JavaJoint.com   dls@daniel.org
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