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To: Jim Ash who wrote (89)6/19/1996 9:36:00 PM
From: Scott Pease   of 24154
 
>>The point of that story should have been, look what you can do with Active X. That's what they used. Took 5 minutes. Kinda scary eh? I wouldn't let anyone use Active X on my web page. <<

Its one thing to discover a weakness. Its another thing to exploit it. Do you really condone that kind of activity? What if I decided to write a tool that floods the netscape sites with SSL authorization requests? "Look how weak SSL is!"

Yes, many of the technologies out there can be exploited, but I would hope the engineers at Netscape would have better uses for their time. How exactly was the poll supposed to protect itself against multiple voting? If you go on just cookies, its trivial to have your browser generate a new cookie...
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