Re: [cors] unaddressed security concerns

Hi, Adam-

Thanks for the reply.

Adam Barth wrote (on 10/24/09 1:00 AM):
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Doug Schepers<schepers@w3.org>  wrote:
>>  That's an interesting point... if the proponents or opponents of CORS did
>>  more testing and modeling, would that satisfy concerns?  Surely it couldn't
>>  be hard to set up a few common model architectures using CORS and announce
>>  them as targets for the white hat community?
>>
>>  Mind you, I'm not stating one way or the other that this should be part of
>>  the exit criteria for CORS, just that it would be helpful overall, and
>>  frankly, if it hasn't been tried, I'm a little surprised... isn't this
>>  *exactly* the sort of thing Google, MS, the browser vendors, and the
>>  security community at large have the resources and expertise to do, as well
>>  as the incentive?  Can a brother get a honeypot?
>
> This issues that Mark and co raise are not really the kinds of things
> one can evaluate with a honeypot-type contest.  They're worried about
> what web developers will build if we give them CORS as a tool.

Sorry for being dense, but why couldn't the whitehats build toy systems 
on an open honeynet?

Regards-
-Doug Schepers
W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs

Received on Saturday, 24 October 2009 05:34:33 UTC