Re: Clickjacking (was: window.open() and popup blockers)

On Oct 6, 2010, at 20:32 , Rich Tibbett wrote:
> Rather than taking clickjacking as the jumping off point perhaps focusing on preventing/managing 'synthesized click events' is the way to go here.
> 
> Instead, I believe the answer lies in enforcing the DOM Level 3 Events specification behaviour around "user-initiated activation triggers" and "trusted" events:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#trusted-events

That's certainly an option, and it's what popup-blocking mostly does. It's also what input type file does currently, though that is apparently being removed as a limitation (which is excellent news).

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Received on Thursday, 7 October 2010 14:20:38 UTC