JavaScript bugs *exposed* http://www.sjmercury.com/business/netsc304.htm

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• Subject: JavaScript bugs *exposed* http://www.sjmercury.com/business/netsc304.htm
• From: Gene Ingram <gene@hpfsvr01.cup.hp.com>
• Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 10:01:51 -0800
• Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co.
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JavaScript bugs finally hit the fan:

http://www.sjmercury.com

AN OUTBREAK OF BUGS in a feature of Netscape
  Communications' Internet software is forcing the Silicon Valley
  company to issue a new version of its flagship "Navigator"
  program, even though the current one is only four
  weeks old. Computer specialists studying Netscape's
  JavaScript control language have found ways in
  which a Web page could, if so designed,
  surreptitiously discover what files exist on an
  individual user's hard disk drive. And a separate bug
  leads to an e-mail violation-of-privacy problem.

         Story <http://www.sjmercury.com/business/netsc304.htm> by
Mercury News Staff Writer Lee Gomes
      
Click on Story link for complete newspaper article.

Gene
   
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Gene Ingram                                  gene@cup.hp.com
                                     ingram@pubs.holosys.com

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