Comments on: Security holes in Google Desktop Search fixed

By: Jesse Ruderman

Jesse Ruderman — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:25:57 +0000

It hasn’t been fixed, but David Baron has been working on it on and off. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777.

By: Felipe Gomes

Felipe Gomes — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 06:53:11 +0000

Jesse. what was the solution for bug 57351? It seems like a hard problem to solve..

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 01:48:32 +0000

You don’t need a hosts file like that if you have Adblock

By: David 'Zanchey' Adam

David 'Zanchey' Adam — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:39:55 +0000

Jesse -

“Firefox, Windows XP, the Windows XP firewall, or my ISP could prevent “external” DNS names from resolving to “internal” IP addresses.like 127.0.0.1.”

If Firefox and Windows XP did this (and possibly the firewall), you’d break those wonderful hosts files filled with ad-server to 127.0.0.1 mappings (misguided though they might be).

I think the first suggestion, GDS rejecting requests that don’t have a host header of localhost or 127.0.0.1, is the better one.

By: Larry Page

Larry Page — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:53:45 +0000

Just what was the objective behind this post? So you could claim some credit?

Happy Ego Trip!