[3840] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Netscape eggs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliott Nichol)
Wed Dec 18 14:40:54 1996
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 17:11:16 +0000 (GMT)
From: Elliott Nichol <nichol@maths.ox.ac.uk>
Reply-To: Elliott Nichol <nichol@maths.ox.ac.uk>
To: Hugh McNeill <hmcneill@tssc.co.nz>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199612172058.JAA25051@nzls42.tssc.wlg.nec.co.jp>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Hugh McNeill wrote:
> Hi
>
> A collegue recently noticed that the netscape logo changed
> from shooting stars to "Mozilla comes out from behind the
> planet and breaths fire." Mozilla is big and green and quite
> well done.
>
> He mailed the document to me but I cannot trigger the same
> effect. Does anyone know if this sequence is embedded in
> netscape or is it possible to load this image from somewhere
> else?
>
> The document was an "alta vista" search result and mozilla
> only comes out while waiting for a connection.
>
> Any more eggs?
>
> HM
>
I know of two, the other being a compass. I don't think they are of
worry in the security department, however, to get the fire-breathing
Mozilla, supply the URL about:mozilla (Unix version Only) - The other needs
a tag something like
<ANIM KEY=zs7NzcrM1dfG29PM SALT=29PZ HASH=38jT68fN38hZ68lN01HRT2vnWdVX91NZZ1N3>
and the document needs to be in a jwz directory - Something lingering from
the original mozilla programmer?! - If so, what else could be in there
that we don't know about - and is it safe??
Elliott.
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