Holy Firefox Sqlite!!!
Anton Rolls
anton at wilddsl.net.au
Tue Jun 24 07:26:17 UTC 2008
Blaine Fleming wrote:
> Anton Rolls wrote:
>> and it's a very weak encryption - I would say useless.
>>
>> http://ftp.ist.utl.pt/pub/drafts/draft-farah-uggc-protocol-01.txt
>>
>> I'm surprised it was adopted for mozilla firefox.
>> I would have thought they would know better than that
>
> It isn't made to be secure, just obscured. If the URL's are in
> plaintext then various malware scanners can pick them up. In this case,
> it makes it very useful.
>
> --Blaine
That makes sense now. :)
I should have known better myself; the file contained
far too many banking urls for them to be all legitimate.
Anton.
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