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Story: Apple dismisses Safari vulnerability claims

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Posted by: Macbrewer (Friday 16 May 2008, 4:17 PM)

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Not really a security problem

This relies on social engineering. You would easily see all the downloads (and could delete them in one fell swoop) from the downloads window in Safari.

The second vuln though, the one that Apple will fix, is a problem that should be fixed.

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