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RE: Online Status Indicator - Security Issue
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Originally posted by Kao
you can actually take the email part out of the script, but they wont be able to open convos, the script has a part like <a href='something or other'>something something</a>

if you take that part of the script out all they will see is the actualy picture and thats it, no one will be able to see your email address
Yes, they will, your email is part of the image-url...So your email IS visible to the whole world. This is the snippet you have to use:

code:
<!-- Begin Online Status Indicator code -->
<!-- http://www.onlinestatus.org/ -->
<A HREF="http://www.nextstepcomputers.ath.cx:8080/message/msn/youremail">
<IMG SRC="http://www.nextstepcomputers.ath.cx:8080/msn/youremail"
border="0" ALT="MSN Online Status Indicator" onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='http://snind.gotdns.com:8080/msn/youremail';"></a>
<!-- End Online Status Indicator code -->


Now, take out the bloated stuff and you get:
<IMG SRC="http://www.nextstepcomputers.ath.cx:8080/msn/youremail">

As you can see, obviously the image-url needs your email to know what account it should check and therefore, your email is visible for everybody who wants it...

Also, as you can see you don't realy need to "register" on http://www.onlinestatus.org/. The only thing the registration process does it make the above code with your email in it...

This post was edited on 02-22-2004 at 04:35 PM by CookieRevised.
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Online Status Indicator - Security Issue - by Beno on 02-20-2004 at 01:37 AM
RE: Online Status Indicator - Security Issue - by CookieRevised on 02-20-2004 at 10:10 AM
RE: Online Status Indicator - Security Issue - by Beno on 02-20-2004 at 01:44 PM
RE: Online Status Indicator - Security Issue - by iascoot on 02-20-2004 at 01:57 PM
RE: Online Status Indicator - Security Issue - by Beno on 02-20-2004 at 02:03 PM
RE: Online Status Indicator - Security Issue - by kao on 02-21-2004 at 01:49 PM
RE: Online Status Indicator - Security Issue - by CookieRevised on 02-22-2004 at 04:33 PM


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