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Re: [LUG] dont use chrome (or IE or Opera)

 

On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:10:02 +0100, tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/05/fraudulent_paypay_certificate_published/
Tom te tom te tom
"The certificate is the latest to target a weakness that causes browsers, email clients, and other SSL-enabled apps to ignore all text following the \ and 0 characters, which are used to denote the end of a string of characters in C-based languages"
Apparently we can't use C to handle windows file paths or numbers as text.

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