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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Interesting side effect of the new IE patch



Stefan Esser <s.esser@e-matters.de> wrote:

> Of course they are not happy now. Like a lot of other people who relied
> on this standard. It is really sad, that Microsoft removes features
> because they are to lazy to think up other solutions. Like showing
> the username, password in a different color, not showing it at all...
> It is one thing to remove a feature because it is like writing the
> password to the back of your keyboard but it is another thing to 
> just remove it because you have no clue how to make it obvious for
> people that this is not part of the servername. 
<<snip>>

Hmmmmm, a security researcher employed by a web development company 
advocating the use of non-standards compliant features that have 
obvious security concerns...

How odd!


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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