RSS/Atom and Security

There's been a lot of buzz lately about the dangers of Javascript hacking in feeds; witness this post in the RSS Public mailing list:

If it is of any help to the community, I have created several test feeds to do some experimenting.

http://rsstest.markwoodman.com/

Trying these out, I have already managed to render my web-based reader account completely unusuable. (Sigh) The risk is very real.

BottomFeeder is utterly immune from this kind of thing. I've got a short screencast below demonstrating that.

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