RE: Accountability in AC4CSR

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Close, Tyler J. wrote:
> 
> The current design clearly doesn't provide any such protection since the 
> _user_'s consent is not required for the third-party site to issue the 
> cross-domain request. Just because a third-party site wants to delete my 
> email and has the permission to do so with my consent, doesn't mean it 
> should be allowed to go ahead and do so without my consent. The current 
> design never requires the user's consent to wield the user's authority.

A victim site that trusts a hostile site is as likely to expose a user to 
this kind of attack today as it is with Access-Control. Again, I don't see 
any way to prevent such an attack when the victim site is misconfigured. 

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Received on Thursday, 7 February 2008 23:05:47 UTC