# Monday, September 26, 2005

Please expand on your hysteria

How irritating:

In an RSS attack, the content deliver from trusted RSS sites is hijacked and lead the user to offending sites, which collect their personal information to phishers, or download viruses to their computer.

[ IT Observer - Next IE Opens Door for RSS Attacks ]

And how, exactly, is RSS attacked? Or hijacked? The feeds are delivered no different than a web page, except they are in XML. I can no more "hijack" RSS than I can a website.

Plus, as I'm sure all will notice soon, browsers are a seriously crappy way of aggregating RSS.

#    Comments [1] |
Monday, September 26, 2005 1:26:36 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
It's like a Flash attack, where they secretly upload a slightly-modified SWF file onto your server and use it to redirect people. ;)
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