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Thermit
Tech
Houston, TX
2621 posts, Jul 2000
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posted 07-15-2002 11:45 AM
    
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992546 quote:
Hundreds of websites have been found to contain bizarre new words thanks to an email security filter used by US internet company Yahoo!.The company's security filter automatically deletes web code that could be used by hackers and replaces it with innocuous words. For example, "eval" is converted to "review", "mocha" is changed into "espresso" and "expression" replaced with "statement". The substitutions are made even if the phrase appears within a word.
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Alpha-Theta
Superior
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694 posts, May 2002
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posted 07-15-2002 03:18 PM
They are going overboard with that, IMO. It's almost a form of censorship, yet at the same time it also seems to intrude upon an individuals intellectual property.I can understand security concerns but this is irrational in my opinion. It's seemingly paranoid. They are modifying specific char sets, on a pre-determined basis. The hackers will exploit it in a week, but it will annoy consumers and surfers for much longer.
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Thermit
Tech
Houston, TX
2621 posts, Jul 2000
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posted 07-15-2002 04:06 PM
I just don't get it. I can't see what harm the word mocha could possibly cause. If the word "mocha" in an HTML document provides some kind of cracking backdoor, then we are in big trouble. Oops, I guess I should have said espresso! Now we're in trouble!!! 
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FLKook
Chemspiracy Realist
East Central Florida
1388 posts, Apr 2001
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posted 07-15-2002 10:00 PM
Don't forget..."Oriental" is out now too. Much more of this and and I'm just going to self combust. Kaboooomb!
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