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Opera security hole, May 2002
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation May 30, 2002
The "Langalist" e-mail newsletter drew my attention to the following security bulletin:
http://sec.greymagic.com/adv/gm001-op/
Basically, there is a bad security hole in Opera v.6.01 and v.6.02 (Windows platforms only) which allows a malicious website to download *any* file from the user's hard drive without them knowing. 
Anyone using 6.01 or 6.02 under Windows should upgrade to 6.03 immediately. 
Opera security hole, May 2002
Tube - the being being back for the time being Posted May 31, 2002
did so three days ago 
Opera security hole, May 2002
26199 Posted Jun 24, 2002
There are, however, 18 known security holes in IE:
http://www.jscript.dk/unpatched/
Including code execution, which is a fair bit worse than downloading...
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