Comments on: More reasons not to trust instant messenger http://rewindlife.com/2003/12/08/more-reasons-not-to-trust-instant-messenger/ Technical discussion of Flex, Flash, and RIA development Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:54:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robby http://rewindlife.com/2003/12/08/more-reasons-not-to-trust-instant-messenger/comment-page-1/#comment-389 Robby Tue, 09 Dec 2003 00:48:58 +0000 http://rewindlife.com/?p=112#comment-389 Sam, One thing I've been watching the past year is ( www.artifactsoftware )'s server based product. I believe its still in beta, but has some really neat things applied to it, nothing else it's worth a look. (One of those I wish I thought of..) Cheers Sam,

One thing I’ve been watching the past year is ( http://www.artifactsoftware )’s server based product. I believe its still in beta, but has some really neat things applied to it, nothing else it’s worth a look. (One of those I wish I thought of..)

Cheers

]]> By: alessandro http://rewindlife.com/2003/12/08/more-reasons-not-to-trust-instant-messenger/comment-page-1/#comment-388 alessandro Mon, 08 Dec 2003 21:30:35 +0000 http://rewindlife.com/?p=112#comment-388 it most surely is because html parses its input and changes potentially unsafe parts of it to avoid IM floods and other script kiddies attacks. In the past it was easy to make someone's yahoo crash by sending him/her lots of messages with embeddeded html. Also yahoomail will change every "evaluate(" strings with "review" in order to avoid cross site scripting vulns. it most surely is because html parses its input and changes potentially unsafe parts of it to avoid IM floods and other script kiddies attacks.

In the past it was easy to make someone’s yahoo crash by sending him/her lots of messages with embeddeded html.

Also yahoomail will change every “evaluate(” strings with “review” in order to avoid cross site scripting vulns.

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