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Date:      Fri, 06 Jul 2012 02:42:06 +0200
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
To:        Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@gmail.com>
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences? 
Message-ID:  <201207060042.q660g65c082363@fire.js.berklix.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message "Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:28:32 %2B0200." <CACY%2BHvpb08W4bJgucJb1ghVf-JgPZs0869qVxFrYRtXEF917wA@mail.gmail.com> 

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Hi,
Reference:
> From:		Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@gmail.com> 
> Date:		Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:28:32 +0200 
> Message-id:	<CACY+Hvpb08W4bJgucJb1ghVf-JgPZs0869qVxFrYRtXEF917wA@mail.gmail.com> 

Carsten Mattner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Wojciech Puchar
> <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> >>> As for reading anything else than internal firefox data it is not
> >>> possible
> >>> except very basic bug is there.
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes otherwise all the flash sites would have gathered files from local
> >> disks.
> >
> >
> > true. javascript activity is sandboxed. But within that sandbox there are
> > million bugs.
> >
> > i've already seen trojans that completely took control over firefox.
> > But - in spite it was windoze - ONLY firefox. Everything else was fine.
> >
> > Deleting firefox user data removed the trojan.
> 
> Nothing is impossible at that complexity.
> 
> I'd still like to know what Julian saw as you didn't see that.
> Did it really contain a script which made it fetch random files from the
> local disk?

I don't know.
I wrote how I obtained the data patern I saw, in my:

> Message-id: <201207050936.q659aWCI016222@fire.js.berklix.net>
> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:36:32 +0200

Others very welcome to try it.

>  Julian? 

> Which Firefox version?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1


>  I am a little concerned.

Me too !
Not had tme to pursued it though.
& I dont feel like exporting that data public
in case its already gone too far.

I suggest others create a dummy guest account & then accesss URL & do 
page save as I wrote.

> 
> >> There are some new Browser APIs which allow you to create files and
> >> only the site that created and owns the file may access it.
> >
> > From what version?
> 
> http://people.mozilla.com/~tglek/velocity2012/
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/FileHandleAPI
> Planned as a supplement or replacement for IndexedDb it seems.


Cheers,
Julian
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