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Re: Re: George Bush appoints a 9 year old to be the chairperson of the Information Security Deportment


From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:45:09 +1200

Denis Jedig wrote:

Are there any documented cases on "serious" (i.e. not for scientific
research or fun, but profit) desinformation or propaganda campaigns using
XSS for their purposes? Some weird US pre-election stuff maybe?

You think the spammers and phishers that use Google's, Yahoo's, MSN's, 
etc, etc open reidrecters to obfuscate their target URLs are _not_ 
doing it for profit?  You think their objective in using URLs 
encompassing those open redirectors is _not_ disinformation?


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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