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Can we please stop Cross-Site Scripting Attacks?

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You’d think the Web designers and masters of a major presidential campaign site would get it right wouldn’t you? I mean, they’re running these sites to convince voters to get their person into the White House right? Isn’t that worth a little time and trouble to make sure that the site isn’t easily crackable?

Well, as anyone who tried to visit Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign site’s community area over the weekend only to find themselves visiting Sen. Clinton’s site knows the answer is “no.”

It’s not just Obama’s techies though. It seems that’s Hillary’s site is also ripe for the picking, but so far, to the best of my knowledge, no one’s done it. Yet.

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