Re: Can a website grab your userID or email address from javascript or any such means?

From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 01/09/03 

From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 20:56:04 GMT

In article <m1fzs23xpv.gnus@usa.net>, those who know me have no need of my
name <not-a-real-address@usa.net> wrote:
>in comp.security.misc i read:
>
>>The easiest way to conceal an email address that absolutely must be on
>>a web page (for contact purposes, etc) is through a neat little
>>javascript trick.
>
>provided that anyone interested in their own security is stupid enough to
>have javascript enabled.

I was amused by the fact that the securityfocus.com website (yes, the
maintainers of Bugtraq) thought it was appropriate to require visitors to use
Javascript, given the number of flaws they've reported associated with it.

Alun.
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[I don't know if they still do require javascript]

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