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diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/formatting/discussion.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/formatting/discussion.mdwn index 0a729af51..0a8d6f567 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki/formatting/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/formatting/discussion.mdwn @@ -7,3 +7,14 @@ In the HTML page I get this: while it the href="" attribute should also be encoded. --mike + +> The htmlscrubber removes entity encoding obfuscation from tag attributes +> This has to be done because such entity encoding can be used to hide +> javascript and other nonsense in html tag attributes. As a consequence, +> markdown's mail obfuscation is reverted. +> +> I don't really see this as a serious issue, because if I were working for +> a spammer, I would include entity decoding in my web spider that searched +> for emails. And I could do it easily, as evidenced by the code in the +> htmlscrubber that doe it. So I assume this technique is not very effective +> at blocking spam. --[[Joey]] |