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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oh no! by GoatPigSheep · 2002-07-15 10:43 · Score: 0, Troll

That word replacing thing goes against our right of free staement

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sigh by twitter · 2002-07-15 13:08 · Score: 0, Troll

medireviewly draconian
Draconian refers to events in ancient Greece.

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