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Gaping security hole in Greasemonkey 0.4?
There are reports of a rather egregious security hole in the latest revision of Greasemonkey -- one that could allow a malicious website access to any local file. Worse -- the attacker wouldn't even need to know the name of the specific file they're looking for, as sending a GET request with a directory as an argument will return a parseable file listing. You may want to uninstall or downgrade if you're a Greasemonkey user.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
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Morgan at Direct Textbook said 6:29AM on 7-20-2005
Here's some other info about it for those that want it:
http://www.betanews.com/article/PlugIn_Raises_Firefox_Security_Doubts/1121793854
http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=282262
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