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A Medireview Approach To Stopping E-Mail Attacks

Posted by timothy on 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.

6 of 260 comments (clear)

  1. Wow by Nept · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't believe it...a slashdot editor actually spelled "medieval" correctly.

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  2. Yahoo works better... by zulux · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...than the CmdrTaco speling and gramer filterer that keeps Slashdot free of all 'dose cross syte scripting bugs that plauge windozw lusers. It werks espeshilayy well of page wisening posts the effect Internet Exploder useres as well.

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    1. Re:Yahoo works better... by DotComVictim · · Score: 4, Funny

      What is wrong with you? You doesn't not even spell "gramer" right. The correct speling was "grahmer", like the crackers you probably doesn't not eat too.

  3. Yahoo response by naoursla · · Score: 5, Funny

    When questioned about the filter, Yahoo claimed the filter was "double plus good".

  4. Bah by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 4, Funny

    When they're replacing random (or not so random...) words with either 'smurf' or 'fnord,' THEN it's time to worry.

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  5. Information corruption by Jonny+290 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm going to laugh when Starbucks sues the shit out of Yahoo when they order 100,000 units of mocha and get shipped 100,000 units of espresso.

    Fucking idiotic.

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