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Re: Hidden files as backup...

Subject: Re: Hidden files as backup...
From: Robert Billing <unclebob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:33:00 +0100
Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux


Andy Burns wrote:
On 25/07/2008 17:56, Robert Billing wrote:


That's because mozilla creates, for some arcane reason, a strangely named subdirectory.

I believe it so that even if some devious javascript figures out a way of forcing a file upload that a user didn't intend, it won't know the full path to the files containing bookmarks, cookies and passwords ...

That's a good point.

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