There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game over” event for defence: there is no effective way to recover if an attacker can inject code into your site. Brian Campbell refers to this as “XSS Nihilism”, which is a great description. But is this bleak assessment actually true? For the most part yes, but in this post I want to talk about a faint glimmer on the horizon that might just be a ray of sunshine after all.
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Neil Madden 