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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday February 28 2018, @06:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-use-lynx-and-elm dept.

Jake Archibald writes in his blog about the bigger problem presented by importing third-party content into web pages. Even CSS is a problem as a CSS keylogger demo showed the other day.

A few days ago there was a lot of chatter about a 'keylogger' built in CSS.

Some folks called for browsers to 'fix' it. Some folks dug a bit deeper and saw that it only affected sites built in React-like frameworks, and pointed the finger at React. But the real problem is thinking that third party content is 'safe'.

While most are acutely aware, yet ignore, the danger presentd by third-party javascript and javascript in general, most forget about CSS. Jake reminds us and walks through quite a few exampled of how CSS can be misused by third-parties exporting it.

Source : Third party CSS is not safe


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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday March 01 2018, @12:07AM

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday March 01 2018, @12:07AM (#645509) Journal
    The bank is requiring him to violate the security of his own machine, not their computers, his own machine. You don't think that's a problem?

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