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Thread #149743   Message #3485331
Posted By: Bert
02-Mar-13 - 03:04 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Web code weakness allows data dump on PC
Subject: Tech: Web code weakness allows data dump on PC
Link to BBC news

Gigabytes of junk data could be dumped onto PCs via a loophole in web code, a developer has found.

The loophole exploits a feature of HTML 5 which defines how websites are made and what they can do.