Re: Profile directory and "salting".

[Sam Steingold]

> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * On the subject of "Re: Profile directory and "salting"."
> * Sent on Sat, 05 May 2001 16:19:55 +0100
> * Honorable Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Past experience shows that a great deal of nasty web-related browser
> exploits and so on rely on the attacker knowing the profile directory
> on the local system of the user (as many users do not change from the
> defaults.) This is merely a contained and sensible response to
> severely limit that threat.

"security by obscurity"?
is this the _only_ way to fix this?!

[I hate the salted profile directories too!]

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Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds)
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