Re: Ajax Security discussion for the OWASP Guide

[Andre Ludwig <andre.ludwig () gmail com>]

I assume you are discussing the Top10?

The top 10 will always try and be explicitly technology independent. 
Unless a technology is so unique and prevalent that it needs to be
addressed with one of the ten highlights there will almost never be a
technology dependent bullet point in the top 10.

Now if i am completely off base and you are discussing a one off guide
for securing AJAX then by all means continue on!

Andre Ludwig

On 23 Sep 2005 13:18:20 -0000, noname () nospace com <noname () nospace com> wrote:
> AJAX has the capability of subverting the presumed behavior of a web application, in the sense that even 
> sophisticated users could not easily tell which client/server interactions are taking place and when. This may have 
> security implications, for example if an application sends back to the server each keystroke as it is typed; this 
> could potentially reveal sensitive information (wrong credentials, inadvertently typed by the user, etc.).
> It is probably more a problem of policy and of informing the end user of what is going on (and actually not all would 
> understand what that means... but that's another story).
> Basically a new thing to consider is that AJAX may break the usual web application paradigm as we know it.