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Niall wrote about this in 2008 (see post/url of post), and there have been several interesting write ups about this across the various outlets. I'm pretty sure
by dotBen 17y ago
Niall wrote about this in 2008 (see post/url of post), and there have been several interesting write ups about this across the various outlets.
I'm pretty sure it's beeing used in loads of places by now - there's probably (/should be) a jQuery plugin for it, even.
I'm wondering why this is making it to HN now, 2 years later?
- orangecat 17y agothere's probably (/should be) a jQuery plugin for it, even No, there shouldn't. Taking advantage of this design flaw is no better than trying to send a Javascript exploit to read my history file directly. I'm surprised that supposedly legitimate sites think using it is an acceptable practice, but I guess I shouldn't be.