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[_] Direct scripting with CSS alone

Rick Hurst rick.hurst at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 13:03:41 BST 2007

On 9/5/07, Richard Davey <rich at corephp.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi _,
>
> One of my favourite security bloggers posted this little demo up.
>
> It demonstrates how advanced CSS is getting, including full send and
> retrieval of data (with *NO* JavaScript at all), Browser History
> recognition and link tracking.
>
> http://www.businessinfo.co.uk/labs/css_scripting_kit/css_scripting_kit.php
>
> This is for FF only at the moment.
>
> It doesn't look like much on the surface, but View Source and check
> out the Style block. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
>

gulp - combined with javascript there is some serious snooping
potential there surely?:-

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.ifYahoo a[href="http://www.yahoo.com"]:visited + div {
		display:block;
    }
	.ifYahoo a[href="http://www.yahoo.com"]:visited + div + span {
		display:none;
  }

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Rick Hurst, Web developer, Bristol, England
http://www.rickhurst.co.uk