full-disclosure - Re: Why should the presence of shebang (#!) freak out ANY security conscious guy?

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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:49:51 -0800
From: Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com>
To: Security Conscious <securityconsciousguy@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Why should the presence of shebang (#!) freak
 out ANY security conscious guy?

It's change.  And change is scary.

(Seriously, nothing wrong with hashbang, except perhaps a slightly
increased risk of CSRF from people forgetting, yes, the web's broken
session management is still broken even with client side JS page
assembly.)

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Security Conscious
<securityconsciousguy@...il.com> wrote:
> Could someone please have a look at these twitter posts:
> http://twitter.com/#!/achitnis/status/40444144992260096
> http://twitter.com/#!/achitnis/status/40447225658228736
> http://twitter.com/#!/achitnis/status/40450742326140928
> and explain why the presence of #! in URLs would freak out ANY security
> conscious guy?
>
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