3 ms·
What’s more troubling is that they could keep copies of things you were about to post but then decided not to. Not a good idea if halfway through writing an en
by matte_black 9y ago
What’s more troubling is that they could keep copies of things you were about to post but then decided not to.
Not a good idea if halfway through writing an entire manifesto or some neo nazi rant you decide to not post it.
I call these “shadow posts”.
- lucb1e 9y agoYou can see if they send anything via ajax... this would be easy to detect.
- mcast 9y agoIt would be trivial to store data in the browser's local storage and hijack a "real" HTTP POST with this data. The front-end logic would need to be obfuscated far enough to deter anyone from trying to step through the Javascript to find it. But no, HN doesn't do this, only companies like Facebook or Twitter would stand to gain from that information (e.g. a shooter almost tweets his plan to attack but doesn't post it).
- matte_black 9y ago> It would be trivial to store data in the browser's local storage and hijack a "real" HTTP POST with this data. The front-end logic would need to be obfuscated far enough to deter anyone from trying to step through the Javascript to find it. Hmm, I think I’ll write a library to do something like this, I just need a cool clever name for it.
- mcast 9y agoI'd suggest "ImPOSTer".
- eat_veggies 9y agohn doesn't seem to send any network requests while typing out a comment, so I doubt that they do, unless they are doing something exceedingly sneaky.