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Re: CGI Security

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fisher Mark)
Thu Nov 7 16:03:50 1996

From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
To: David Tauzell <tauzell@math.umn.edu>
Cc: "'www-security'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 96 13:55:00 EST
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu


>In most browsers and OS's the password field can usually be copied and
>pasted to get at the actuall text.

Not under NT with Netscape Navigator 3.0.  Tried it both with my own HTML 
and the New York Times page.  It didn't even copy the '*'s to the clipboard.
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Mark Leighton Fisher                   Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@indy.tce.com                   Indianapolis, IN

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