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RE: XSS, SQL injection etc - permutations of input strings

Subject: RE: XSS, SQL injection etc - permutations of input strings
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:33:43 -0400
 Yet, if you don't require it, it doesn't hurt.  Keep the name/value
pairs out of the browser history & web logs, if there's no real need to
have them there (and if it's not https, out of the proxy logs & referer
headers). Get rid of yet more possible sources of information
disclosure.

-Larry

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Subject: Re: XSS, SQL injection etc - permutations of input strings

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Turning off GET requests may not buy you as much as you think.  Any
dedicated hacker who is going to be attempting xss or sql injection,
etc. probably knows how to save a page and tamper the post form vars.
Also, if you do regular log checks variable tampering through GET
requests is typically much easier to spot as the entire URL is logged
and you can see hacking attempts as part of the URL request.

*snip*

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