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Re: Firefox: about:blank is phisher's best friend


From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf () dione ids pl>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:56:35 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Florian Weimer wrote:

This is the first time I read about the forced window title change.  I
hadn't noticed it earlier.  Do you think this is a good enough security
indicator (or indicator of origin, to be more precise)?

This is quite inadequate as far as protecting inexperienced users is
considered - but at least offers a chance for more alert ones to notice
the problem.

Bypassing it through about:blank elliminates even this opportunity, so
we're back in square one...

/mz


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