Javascript (was Re: [Sheflug] Re: BNC Network Question)

[Alex Hudson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:53, Craig Andrews wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 April 2002 17:31, you exclaimed:
> > The actual source code might be in an external file but referenced from
> > with the source HTML of the page you're actually viewing. I don't think
> > there are any JavaScript commands which can do nasty things to your hard
> > drive. Others may know better.
> 
> Not that I know of.

I believe that IE used to have a good one. There exists a JavaScript
command to 'Save bookmarks' to a file. This was a 'trusted' function :/.
Promptly, someone wrote a (two-line?) script to save the bookmarks* and
much hilarity ensued.

I believe http://www.crackmonkey.org/fanmail.html is the place to
look**.

Cheers,

Alex.

*. Saved, but over the location of the Windows NT kernel. Hence nasty
hard drive things :) Windows apparently isn't amused when it's core
components get overwritten with a list of websites...

**. Just don't use Windows to view it, your machine may spontaneously
crash. 


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