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Do Blog Feeds carry a security risk?

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Do Blog Feeds carry a security risk?

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C|Net has an article claiming that: Blog feeds may carry security risk. Personally I think this is a bit alarmist. I’ve not done a count, but I think most aggregators don’t execute Javascript encountered in RSS Feeds. In fact the quality of the HTML found in RSS is so bad that I think most of us do some major scrubbing and cleaning to get it to be meaningful. BlogBridge does not process Javascript and thus is not vulnerable to this attack. I bet this is true of many if not most of our esteemed competitors. In general though I think it’s much more likely that malicious Javascript affects pages displayed in the Web Browser, so the focus correctly should remain there.

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