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Old 9th December 2010
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Default WebSockets disabled in Firefox 4

From http://www.h-online.com/security/new...4-1150369.html

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Due to a vulnerability in the design of the WebSocket protocol, the Mozilla Foundation has decided to disable support for this protocol in the forthcoming Firefox 4 Beta 8 release. The vulnerability in the code for transparent proxies can potentially be exploited to poison the proxy cache and inject manipulated pages.

This could allow attackers to inject a specially crafted JavaScript for Google Analytics into the proxy's cache that will be returned to clients and executed in their browsers after every subsequent request.
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Everyone seems to be rushing in these HTML5 features headfirst, without actually using their head.

I suspect there will be a long strong HTML5-related security problems ... This is the 1990's all over again
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Old 10th December 2010
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btw, Opera, too, has frozen the release of this but it's not in any browser yet. HTML5 encompasses a lot of things that aren't security issues.
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