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Foil 141 JavaScript Security Issues

From Remarks on Internet and Java Security Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, Mehmet Sen
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2 Signed Script Policy comes with Netscape version 4.
3 In Navigator 3.0, one could use data tainting to get access to additional information.
  • This was very clumsy and almost impossible to use and in particular to make precise
4 However, Navigator 4.0 replaces data tainting with the signed script policy. Because signed scripts provide greater security and greater precision than tainting, tainting has been disabled in Communicator 4.x.
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