On 16.04.2007, at 17:01, Matt Kruse wrote:

In reality, I have yet to see any evidence that this problem actually
exists in the wild. It's a theoretical security concern (not even a
flaw) that is interesting but has very little practical application.

You can steal personal information from other sites, if users stay in a cookie-based session while surfing on other pages.

There was at least one Gmail contact list exploit working similarly "in the wild" already.

Don't deliver private data as JavaScript/JSON unless it's secured with secrets in the URL.

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