News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone. Parent comment

Re:An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the ... by CrazyStat on Sunday December 19, 2021 @11:14AM (#29615043)
Allowing an ads customer to "just" slip a request for camera and mic access into an ad script is malicious.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the ... by ehnto on Sunday December 19, 2021 @11:17AM (#29615074)
Negligent, I wouldn't call it malicious but I would call it negligent.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the ... by CrazyStat on Sunday December 19, 2021 @11:44AM (#29615427)
The first time google served malicious JS on behalf of a customer was negligent. Maybe the second and third and fourth and fiftieth times too.

It's not 2003 anymore, we're far past negligence at this point.

[ Parent | on HN ]