Re: WWW Security Hole -- Bull! -- Bull!

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Message-id: <9308131530.AA11538@herman.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: WWW Security Hole -- Bull! -- Bull! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Aug 93 19:44:01 CDT."
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 11:30:48 -0400
From: William C Fenner <fenner@herman.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Status: RO

On Thu, 12 Aug 1993 19:44:01 -0500  Tony Sanders wrote:
> This would never happen, a simple grep through the users files would find
> the offensive data in the .mosaic-global-history file

Nope, image retrievals don't get put in the .mosaic-global-history file.
I just turned on my global history, and loaded the dangerous document to
be sure, and the only things in my history file were my home page,
the GIF from my home page, and the dangerous document.

> This is a good reason for browsers to keep good log files of what they do.

Maybe Mosaic needs better log files?...

  Bill