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		Qantourisc on Feb 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Can Detect Your Facebook Username, Using W3C Sta... Isn't it time browser implement a "safe" mode: - Sharing cookies between tabs? Nope, unless you personally opened it another tab, and expires as soon as you type in a new url. - Access or url on a different domain ... maybe, but certainly not to localhost. - Font access ? No - Plugin listing ? No - Whatever the hell I don't know about: No. Then either allow the user to whitelist the site, and/or allow certain parts. Would it be easy for the user? No. Would we weed out a lot of issues? At least a few !

lucian1900 on Feb 28, 2013 [–]

That would break way too many things to be acceptable. Web technologies are stupidly backwards compatible.

Qantourisc on Feb 28, 2013 | [–]

I know ... but if you are going to be backwards compatible with security flaws/designs ... cheese ... then it's never ever going to get fixed, and I'll stop bothering making web-apps: no security future!

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