Looks like I still have an account here from ancient times... There was nothing private about the reply I sent to Nanobot, it was simply extremely...
I forwarded this issue report to the correct place (EasyList forums): http://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=6484
I don't mind the ads, but I mind hypocrisy. If you say that NoScript makes browsing safer then you have to be consistent - remove anything from...
By the way, Giorgio - why don't you make browsing with NoScript a little safer? It would be very easy for you, simply remove maone.net,...
I doubt that I can recommend you another extension, but at the very least I should know what your requirements are. Looking at the description of...
As I said - I have more examples. I installed Firefox on computers of several unexperienced users and none of them had any issues ever since. And...
@ErikAlbert: Nothing will happen at all. My girlfriend knows almost nothing about computers. She is running Firefox with nothing but Adblock Plus...
I was the only one criticizing the concept of Firekeeper, and I recognized that I misunderstood the idea after author's comments here. But...
The quote about issues with XSS countermeasures was about the newest version - there was a lot more complaining about the previous version of...
Yes, my opinion on this didn't change. XSS is a very common problem, and I think that Jeremiah Grossman's statement about 80% of sites being...
Adblock (the old one, without "Plus") does have an option to hide the ads instead of really blocking them and this option isn't exactly...
I doubt that - but I am biased because I am the developer of Adblock Plus :)
The increased speed is not because JavaScript is slow per se - it is because these scripts have to load from third-party servers. If you block the...
And my opinion on why it is a bad solution: http://adblockplus.org/blog/usability-vs-security
Thanks for this explanation, Jan. That makes sense. However, in that case the more general rules have to be removed - using document.domain is...
My blog post on this topic is now live: http://adblockplus.org/blog/blacklists-whitelists-and-security
Thanks, Giorgio, that's more or less it. Only two clarifications (just to be sure): your port scanning idea solves one part of the problem but we...
tlu, I am talking about XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) vulnerabilities and those are very common. Mozillazine is full with them, the admins there...
The difference to firewalls is the value/cost ratio. Firewalls: value is high, going without one will likely result in malware infections. Cost...
Giorgio, I did in fact use IE's zone policies five years ago with the same effect as NoScript today. I know lots of people still do. I didn't...
Giorgio, while you certainly wrote a great extension, disabling JavaScript is common practice in IE (and a usual recommendation) - aren't you...
It isn't fixed, see bug 147777. It is being worked on but I don't think we will see the results before Firefox 3.0 - it is a big change, too...
Oh, and on the point of Adblock's security features - there are none :) I am not sure why some people promote Adblock Plus as a security...
I am quite certain that most attacks can be performed without scripts if one only tries hard enough (e.g. see...
Neither Adblock Plus nor NoScript are really security solutions, they will rarely be helpful when it comes to security. But this FireKeeper...
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