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Foil 99 Data Tainting

From Overview of Advanced JavaScript -- Web Scripting Language CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 98. by Tom Scavo,Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Data tainting, an alternative to the Same Origin Policy, was experimentally implemented in NN3.0
2 Data tainting allows access to private data (e.g., history[] array) but forbids "export" of this data over the Internet
3 Both data and methods may be tainted
4 Tainting has been disabled in NN4, in favor of signed scripts
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