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Thread ID: 59205 2005-06-24 13:32:00 IE Spoofing Pop-Ups: It's a Feature, Not a Flaw! vinref (6194) Press F1
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366794 2005-06-24 13:32:00 so say Microsoft as reported in this article (www.zdnet.com.au).

These are designed to trick users into entering sensitive details into a pop-up box spawned by a phishing site. Firefox and Opera have already addressed this issue, but those comedians at Microsoft consider it a feature, and so no patch will be offered.
vinref (6194)
366795 2005-06-25 03:24:00 So much for "History never repeats" Greven (91)
366796 2005-06-25 03:53:00 fairly normal for MS. don't forget a lot of the ms sicurity holes are "features" even if noone would ever use that feature. thats what you get for having ever feature under the sun and having them all turned on by default. tweak'e (69)
366797 2005-06-25 04:08:00 There's an old definition:

Advanced feature: a cockup someone's found an excuse for.
Graham L (2)
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