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Surprises on your disk



On 4/25/05, John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu> wrote:

> If you ever run  a  browser  with  any  scripting  enabled,
> including  javascript  or  activeX, your disk may very well
> contain a number of files that you've never seen, but which
> could  be used against you in court.  It might be difficult
> to convince a typical juror that you  didn't  intentionally
> download them.

Turning of scripting really wouldn't help much - an IMG tag with width
and height attributes of 0 should have the same effect.

--
Andrew Medico <a.medico at gmail.com>




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