This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Agile Buzz
by James Robertson.
Original Post: RSS Security
Feed Title: Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants
Feed URL: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/rssBlog/rssBlogView.xml
Feed Description: James Robertson comments on Cincom Smalltalk, the Smalltalk development community, and IT trends and issues in general.
Dare Obasanjo links to this Mark Pilgrim post on safely consuming RSS. The upshot is, aggregators should strip potentially harmful tags. BottomFeeder is completely immune to this kind of thing - the HTML pane is a limited HTML widget implemented in Smalltalk, and doesn't support any of those things.