A Medireview Approach To Stopping E-Mail Attacks

Posted by timothy on Monday July 15, 2002 @10:39AM from the can-neither-confirm-nor-deny dept.

dcsmith writes: "This article at the Need To Know web site reports that the free(as in beer) e-mail arm of Yahoo has been replacing certain words in messages received by yahoo.com e-mail accounts. In an apparent attempt to forestall cross-site scripting attacks, 'mocha' becomes 'espresso' and 'free expression' becomes 'free statement'... My personal favorite - since medieval contains the text "eval", it is altered to 'medireview' ... Check Google for the number of web sites containing medireview." Kwelstr points to this story at New Scientist as well.

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You get what you pay for.. by destiney · 2002-07-15 10:48 · Score: 0, Flamebait

People who rely on free email for anything important are dumbasses.

I'd rather pay for it, then when someone botched my service I would have a leg to stand on.

What do you say to yahoo in a case like? Nothing you can say... You got what you paid for.
A Medireview by ergo98 · 2002-07-15 13:20 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Your post sucks!