Re: Uh oh. Unauthorized access to my filesystem from site??????

From: Dave Vandervies (dj3vande_at_csclub.uwaterloo.ca)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:54:29 +0000 (UTC)

In article <7kPqd.801$8v3.448@trndny08>,
Thomas G. Marshall <tgm2tothe10thpower@replacetextwithnumber.hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Uh guys....
>
>This site: www.text-image.com converts images you specify into html text.
>Fairly cool BUT...
>
>When I clicked the browse button on the site I was granted immediate no
>questions asked access to my filesystem.
>
>Do you guys see this on browsers other than mine? (IE 6.mumble)

I don't even see a browse button with lynx.

My first guess would be that your browser is doing the file selector
locally, and will send the file you choose to the remote system.

dave
<a href="file://c:\"> 

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Dave Vandervies                      dj3vande@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
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