DAMNED Re: Fedora Security and the Uverse 3800HGV-B router

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On 07/02/2011 10:18 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 02.07.2011 16:50, schrieb JD:
>> On 07/02/2011 01:32 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>> Am 02.07.2011 06:14, schrieb JD:
>>>
>>>> When will the linux community wake up and shout out loud:
>>>> Kill JavaScript from all browsers and all network servers
>>>> and network clients
>>> never because the community is not dumb
>>> why do we not forbid knifes since people are killed with them?
>> Not the same issue
> sure, because knifes can hurt people
>
> LOCAL file browsing can not or will you forbid any fileupload per webform
> because you also not understand why it is not a sceurity problem that
> you can browse local files here?
>
>> Most people are not even aware that their personal
>> files are being uploaded
> their will be nothing uploaded and you should stop to cry
> things like "When will the linux community wake up" until
> you have ANY BASICAL knowledge about what you are speaking
>
>> If a javascript can browse all accessible files, what's there
>> to prevent someone from writing a javascript to spawn
>> a process to upload your files?
> damend you can not spawn a process with javascript and
> you CAN NOT silently upload files with JS, so please
> get some basics or shut up instead making some noobs crazy
> which maybe believe your stuff
>
>
>> A simpler example, how do you think a javascript can
>> tell that you have been to some particular site?
>> It uploads your cookies.
> it can not access cookies from foreign domains damned
> learn basics or shut up!
>
>> I would have hoped that the FOSS communities would have
>> raised a big public fuss (pun unintentional) over websites
>> sending javascripts at peoples' computers and compromising
>> their files
> the problem is that the FOSS community has basic knowledges
> and you have not - so you make other people which have
> also now technical knowledge crazy with your braindead rant
>



Reindl - just a friendly tip: going civil goes a long way.

Cheers,

Chris