Possible RSS Abuse in Longhorn

dMill writes "There has been a lot of discussion about Microsoft's decision to bake RSS into Longhorn (see previous Slashdot coverage) but the obvious security implications seem to be on the back burner. eWeek has a story discussing the risks and Don Park is also warning about the potential for abuse and exploitation. For example, the primary mechanism behind podcast, RSS enclosure, can be used to deliver worms and worse to the desktops. If there are any vulnerabilities in iPod (or any MP3 player hooked up to podcast sync client) codec, then podcasting is a good way to deliver overflow inducing content."

Comments

Wow.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

I was actually going to read the eweek article, when this stupid little div popup appears, complete with candy-ass XP style close button. No thanks.

Re:OS X

[DogDude]

If this smartass comment wasn't posted by an AC, I'd ask to compare financials with this shitheel.