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Tech Note: Greatly Enhanced Security for Signing In

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Charles Johnson1/27/2014 5:48:38 pm PST

The fact that Safari let the LGF Pages bookmarklet run even when it was crossing HTTP/HTTPS protocols was nagging at me, so I investigated some more, and discovered that Safari writes an error message about content being accessed insecurely to the console — but still allows the content to be accessed. Both Chrome and Firefox block cross-protocol access, and also write an error message to the console.