neglected security issue in konqueror?

[Waldo Bastian]

Yes, we are aware of this issue, thank you for your concern. See 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98788

Cheers,
Waldo

On Tuesday 08 February 2005 18:20, daniel wrote:
> http://www.shmoo.com/idn/
>
> a friend sent me this link this morning and it seems to me to be a real
> security problem but according to the paper, this issue was raised back in
> 2001 and both mozilla and all khtml projects seem to still be affected by
> this potential problem.
>
> i posted to kde at mail.kde.org and it was reccomended that i re-post it here.
> It seems to me that given that removing a standard from a
> standard-compliant browser isn't much of an option, might i suggest a
> warning popup of some kind?  or is this kind of issue best directed to the
> people responsible for resolution of names like that mentioned at the above
> link.

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