A Medireview Approach To Stopping E-Mail Attacks

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.

Comments

Arrgh

[sulli]

Why not just give the user the option to STRIP OUT ALL THE FUCKING HTML IN EVERY EMAIL? I for one HATE html email - hate it with a passion - hate the slow loading and the crashing browsers and the cookies/images loaded without my permission. Add that feature and this problem goes away.