full-disclosure - Re: Google open redirect

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Message-ID: <CALx_OUBfos-LFwyyLjBxbAaViNmznMni9-m9Z_8beSPr7_27=A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:54:29 -0800
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx>
To: Marsh Ray <marsh@...endedsubset.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Google open redirect

> They may be in the minority, but there *are* users out there who know how to
> look at the address bar. The security researcher knows this because he is
> one of them. I call this group the "competent and contentious users".

Sure. And that group is sort of safe when faced with open redirectors,
mouseover tooltips, etc - well, modulo funny corner cases like this:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/switch/

...or:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/switch/index2.html

I have seen the "most users don't understand X anyway" as an argument
against fixing X in the browser several times before, and I think
that's wrong; but I'm not sure this is applicable here.

/mz

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