[GTALUG] something new to worry about.

[ac]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 09:48:27 -0400
Alvin Starr via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/new-attack-steals-ssns-e-mail-addresses-and-more-from-https-pages/
> 
users love the convenience of simply allowing anything on any
old random website of executing on their devices :)

i think eventually this will cause the end of third party cookies
(which many verification services also use, by default, on commercial
transactions) - as there are not that many complaints and social
engineering, spear, etc is much easier I doubt if this will even happen
in the next few years...