Full Disclosure mailing list archives
Re: Google open redirect
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf () coredump cx>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:54:29 -0800
They may be in the minority, but there *are* users out there who know how to look at the address bar. The security researcher knows this because he is one of them. I call this group the "competent and contentious users".
Sure. And that group is sort of safe when faced with open redirectors, mouseover tooltips, etc - well, modulo funny corner cases like this: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/switch/ ...or: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/switch/index2.html I have seen the "most users don't understand X anyway" as an argument against fixing X in the browser several times before, and I think that's wrong; but I'm not sure this is applicable here. /mz _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
Current thread:
- Google open redirect secure poon (Dec 07)
- Re: Google open redirect Michele Orru (Dec 07)
- Re: Google open redirect Nick FitzGerald (Dec 07)
- Re: Google open redirect Michal Zalewski (Dec 07)
- Re: Google open redirect Luis Santana (Dec 07)
- Re: Google open redirect Michal Zalewski (Dec 07)
- Re: Google open redirect Michal Zalewski (Dec 08)
- Re: Google open redirect Dave (Dec 08)
- Re: Google open redirect Michal Zalewski (Dec 08)
- Re: Google open redirect Michal Zalewski (Dec 07)
- Re: Google open redirect Marsh Ray (Dec 09)
- Re: Google open redirect Michal Zalewski (Dec 09)
- Re: Google open redirect Charles Morris (Dec 12)
- Re: Google open redirect Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 09)
- Re: Google open redirect Marsh Ray (Dec 11)
- Re: Google open redirect Dave (Dec 09)
- Re: Google open redirect Tavis Ormandy (Dec 10)
- Re: Google open redirect Marsh Ray (Dec 13)
- Re: Google open redirect Tavis Ormandy (Dec 13)
- Re: Google open redirect Charles Morris (Dec 08)
- Re: Google open redirect Benji (Dec 08)
- Re: Google open redirect Charles Morris (Dec 08)