Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 19 99

Foil 154 Targets-2

From Remarks on Internet and Java Security Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, Mehmet Sen


The followings are some samples of system targets and the JavaScript methods that require privileges to check them:
UniversalFileRead:Setting a file upload widget
UniversalSendMail:Submitting a form to a mailto
UniversalBrowserRead:Using an about: URL other than about:blank
UniversalBrowserWrite:Setting any property of event object
UniversalBrowserRead: Getting the value of the data property DragDrop event
UniversalBrowserRead: Getting the value of any property of history object
UniversalPreferencesRead/Write: Getting setting the value of a preference of navigatorobject using the preference method



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