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Firefox Greasemonkey Extension Security Problem

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 19, 2005 @02:43AM from the uninstall-it-now-man dept.

Mr2001 writes "A recent thread on the Greasemonkey mailing list suggests that the popular Firefox extension is fatally insecure. It seems rogue pages can read any file from your disk and send it to any site, using an XmlHttpRequest. Time to uninstall GM?"

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Re:What should be done. by interiot · 2005-07-19 03:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Please post as a logged-in person, so I can see if you always talk like that. And if you really do always talk like that, log in so I can put you in my "Foes" list.