Re: XSS mitigation in browsers

> Or maybe the HTML group. Clickjacking is baked into the current
> standards and the people most involved in those standards may be
> required to compromise on them. For example, one simple-minded
> solution might be to dis-allow events targeted at cross-origin
> frames that meet some spoofing criteria (small, obscured, nested,
> scrolled, etc).

I proposed this several years ago, before all the public attention
clickjacking managed to get:

http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-September/016327.html

...but the response to any solutions that require any UI logic was
overwhelmingly negative.

/mz

Received on Friday, 21 January 2011 02:07:44 UTC