"~BD~" <~BD~@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message
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> Dustin wrote:
>> ~BD~<~BD~@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
>> news:j6h3cj$m4d$2@dont-email.me:
>>
>>> Dustin wrote:
>>>> FromTheRafters<erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
>>>> news:j65csr$e9e$1@dont-email.me:
>>>>
>>>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>>>>> FromTheRafters wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
>>>>>>>> Dustin wrote:
>>>>>>>>> That's not a cookie issue. It's an OLD vulnerability I think?
>>>>>>>>> in the css. Any website can ask your browser for a dump of
>>>>>>>>> it's entire history.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It *is* the cookies. CSS is benign text that controls the
>>>>>>>> display of the page you are viewing. It can't do anything at
>>>>>>>> all to track you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, Dustin may be using an older no longer used abbreviation
>>>>>>> for Cross Site Scripting (CSS) which now means Cascading Style
>>>>>>> Sheets.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cross Site Scripting is XSS now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Okay. CSS has been Cascading Style Sheets since .. somewhere into
>>>>>> the last millennium<g>.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Even though there is no confusion over CSRF/XSRF like there was
>>>>> over CSS/XSS, XSRF is often used anyway apparently in keeping with
>>>>> XSS and XMAS. )
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My bad my bad.
>>>
>>> Thank you, Dustin! :-)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> for?
>>
>>
>
> Accepting that you were wrong on this occasion.

He wasn't. He was using the older terminology correctly. Like "SysOp" and
"coder" he was using terminology that he knows, in the correct way, while
others were misunderstanding him due to newer terminology usurping the
older.

Cross-Site Scripting was being discussed around 1990 or so, and the CSS-1
specification (Cascading Style Sheets) was being drafted around 1997 and
was almost fully implemented in browsers by the time Windows 2000 came out.
CSS came to mean Cascading Style Sheets by website "coders" and "SysOps"
everywhere. The security folks have now adopted XSS as the new terminology.

BTW, that *was* the last millennium. D