full-disclosure - Re: Re: George Bush appoints a 9 year old to be the chairperson of the Information Security Deportment

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Message-id: <44F2E555.27371.2FFB22D0@nick.virus-l.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:45:09 +1200
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Re: George Bush appoints a 9 year old to be the
	chairperson of the Information Security Deportment

Denis Jedig wrote:

> Are there any documented cases on "serious" (i.e. not for scientific
> research or fun, but profit) desinformation or propaganda campaigns using
> XSS for their purposes? Some weird US pre-election stuff maybe?

You think the spammers and phishers that use Google's, Yahoo's, MSN's, 
etc, etc open reidrecters to obfuscate their target URLs are _not_ 
doing it for profit?  You think their objective in using URLs 
encompassing those open redirectors is _not_ disinformation?

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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