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To: YlangYlangBreeze who wrote (12572)	5/21/2000 5:55:00 AM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19374

YYB trouble with Stoclk Talk, Full Text Search just tried it and no problem tc

To: YlangYlangBreeze who wrote (12572)	5/21/2000 5:56:00 AM
From: Vendit™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19374

Is anybody else having trouble with Stock Talk, Full Text Search? On Friday evening a non SI programmer, David Stockwell, discovered 3 different weaknesses in SI's HTML which would have made it easy for someone with bad intentions to invade any SI members privacy. He exploited at least one of the 3 weaknesses and reprogrammed SI so that any PM that anyone sent would go directly to him in order to get his point across to Go2net. SI is busy this weekend fixing all of the holes that David found and if interested you can read the entire story on the "Welcome to Silicon Investor" thread. Before you get the wrong idea, let me tell you that David did all of us a favor by pointing this out to SI. I agree with what he did because it forced SI to correct the problem within a few hours. The last time that I checked "Welcome to Silicon Investor" was number 1 on the hot list. Reid