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Safari Suffers from "Carpet Bomb" Issue

Friday May 16, 2008. 09:35 PM
TheMacObserver

It's possible for a maliciously crafted website to "carpet bomb" the Windows desktop or the Mac OS X Download destination folder with files, according to Nitesh Dhanjani in his O'Reilly blog. Apple is aware of the issue

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