Nik Cubrilovic at TechCrunchIT brings the story of how Opera Software is building a team of "web evangelists" whose job it is
to find sites that do not display correctly in Opera and are not
standards-compliant, and then email the site owners. Great. I'm enjoying everything that comes from this company (using Opera Mini with my BlackBerry ).
But what about security? Why can't we email site owners when we find vulnerabilities?
Here's a challenge for myself and the others. Let's see if I'm falling into the SANS statistics I wrote about earlier: Can the community write a browser extension that identifies web vulnerabilities (there are many open tools), finds the site owner (there are tools that can do this as well), suggests a fix (might be tricky) and emails the web owner? In theory, it can work.
But what about security? Why can't we email site owners when we find vulnerabilities?
Here's a challenge for myself and the others. Let's see if I'm falling into the SANS statistics I wrote about earlier: Can the community write a browser extension that identifies web vulnerabilities (there are many open tools), finds the site owner (there are tools that can do this as well), suggests a fix (might be tricky) and emails the web owner? In theory, it can work.
Opera Mini and a friend. Source: http://www.operamini.com/
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