full-disclosure - Re: Firespoofing [Firefox 1.0]

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From: peak at argo.troja.mff.cuni.cz (Pavel Kankovsky)
Subject: Re: Firespoofing [Firefox 1.0]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, mikx wrote:

> The bug is confirmed but currently unfixed (open for more than 3 months). As 
> a partial workaround set dom.disable_window_flip to true in about:config. 

Setting most of dom.disable_window_open_feature.* to true (and making it
impossible to remove browser "decorations" from browser windows) is a
pretty efficient (even if not 100% bullet-proof) way to thwart this kind
of attack. As well as other GUI spoofing attacks.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."